(October 2, 2022 at 1:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 2, 2022 at 1:01 pm)Jehanne Wrote: And, so, you don't think that Reagan's supposed "Star Wars" (which everyone today recognizes to have been nothing more than a paper tiger, and quite possibly, even today, impossible to implement on at least a practical level) program did not cause a burden on the Soviet Union's military & industrial complex, which perceived it to be a real threat to nuclear detente and the status quo? Were not the Soviets themselves trying to keep-up with the West militarily, which caused additional strain on their economy which led to Perestroika? Are you saying that the Reagan administration deserves no credit for the reforms that led to the Soviet Union's breakup?
Do you not read what you respond to? There is no evidence - internal or external - that the Soviets out-spent themselves trying to keep up with the West’s military expansion.
Lech Walesa had more to do with the dissolution of the USSR than Reagan did.
Boru
Yes, I do read all the responses to my posts in their entirety. In this case, what is there to respond to?? Internal Soviet documents??? The various medieval Inquisitions kept copious notes on their proceedings, also! I do not regard internal Soviet documents as being, necessarily, the ultimate source of truth, or even necessarily representative of the truth.
