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No, by outspending them militarily, encouraging Solidarity in Poland, and forcing Gobarchev to realise the inevitable.


Encouraging Solidarity in Poland was the right call, but it's not likely that different leaders would have opposed it.

"Neither the strong nor the weak version of the proposition that American defense spending bankrupted the Soviet economy and forced an end to the Cold War is sustained by the evidence."

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/foreign/reagr...


I hardly think you can expect an unbiassed opinion from Gorbachev.


I expect Gorbachev to be wildly biased, which is why I don't attach much credence to his statements.




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