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0 pointswhatshisface1y ago0 comments

The Soviets stopped catching up to the west under Brezhnev, and never recovered from what Gorbachev called, "the era of stagnation."

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p1esk1y ago

The Cold War was just one of many factors leading to the Soviet Union collapse. It was a lot more complex than “stopped catching up to the West”.

Source: I lived through it.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it was the biggest external influence on the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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p1esk1y ago

The Cold War was just one of many factors leading to the Soviet Union collapse. It was a lot more complex than “stopped catching up to the West”.

Source: I lived through it.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it was the biggest external influence on the collapse of the Soviet Union.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse