We'll have to disagree then.
It was not one thing... it was many. Including the Arms Race. PERIOD.
Did A Canadian, not Reagan, cause the 'Wall to Fall'?
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We'll have to disagree then.
It was not one thing... it was many. Including the Arms Race. PERIOD.
No coal or steel = no arms.We'll have to disagree then.
It was not one thing... it was many. Including the Arms Race. PERIOD.
That article is from the summer of 1989... the 80's arms race and Perestroika was well under way and the Fall was a mere months away.
The 80's arms race was a bluff. The Soviets didn't have anywhere near the arms we thought they did.
The quality and serviceability of them was a question. But the Soviet Army was massive and capable. They had plenty. I'd never underestimate the Soviets or today's Russians. They are a hearty people and capable of enduring quite a bit of hardship. But you have to admit they did answer the call to the arms race and it was a big part of the fall. As I said there were a number of reasons and the arms race was one of them.
It was indeed. They were cleaver about moving stuff around to make it look like they had more.
One thing is certain. They kicked our asses in the space race. Moon or no moon.
No single person or event brought the Berlin Wall down, though I think a case could be made that it was mostly the old USSR collapsing under the weight of its internal difficulties and contradictions. I've never thought Reagan should get any credit for it at all, I think his constant sabre-rattling probably prolonged the Cold War by several years by lending credibility to the paranoia of the old Soviet establishment.
