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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (363905)12/21/2007 12:26:17 AM
From: combjelly   of 1577228
 
"The Soviet Union was brought down by Afghanistan, poor economic mgmt, and trying to maintain its empire in Eastern Europe."

By the time Reagan was elected, the handwriting was on the wall. Several of the satellites, like East Germany, had a higher standard of living than Moscow.

To give Reagan his due, and he deserves it, by supplying arms to the Afghani's, Moscow learned exactly how useless their military was. Given that they has sacrificed decades to have a military that should have swept all of Europe in a matter of weeks, it was a crippling blow.
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