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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (707125)	4/3/2013 11:37:27 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1583396

However, the primary cause of the Soviet's decline was its living beyond its means while supporting a very corrupt, oligarchic system of gov't. Its fall was inevitable and just happened to occur during Reagan's tenure. I agree about the primary cause of the Soviet Union's downfall, but you have to admit that Reagan helped hasten its demise. Carter would have postponed it because his way of making peace is by legitimizing adversarial regimes. Instead of causing or helping the Soviet Union collapse upon itself, he would have tried to keep the regime alive. Okay. But according to the article that inode posted to me part of the reason Reagan succeeded in bringing the Soviets down was due to his efforts at nuclear disarmament. He and Gorbachev worked on disarmament together. The fall of an empire doesn't happen over nite. It takes decades. And that's true of the Soviet Union. Reagan played a role but so did every American president since WW II.