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Originally Posted by sergbuto
I agree 100% with Stealth Hunter. It was people of Eastern Germany who brought down the wall as well as it was people of Russia who brought the communist regime down. I was there I know what I am talking about. People actually laugh when they hear Americans saying the US won the Cold War. There was no Americans around when people were standing against the tanks. Some of those people I know personally, they do not even like Reagan.
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First off, just because one is in the vicinity of an event occuring, it in no way means that person knows what they are talking about.
Secondly, you're clearly taking the very short-sighted view. Did you bother to consider what actions brought to bear the economic pressures that caused the people in Eastern Germany and the USSR to be susceptible to this type of revolution? Sure, those people did the legwork - legwork that wouldn't have been possible had the USSR not spent itself into oblivion.
And finally, yes - the West (the US specifically) won the Cold War. It's over, and of its two main participants, the Cold War claimed the existance of one, while the other remains standing tall.
That would be victory, friend.