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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
It was not JUST Ronald Reagan. It was not JUST Mikhail Gorbochev. It was NOT just the economic and political pressures from outside the USSR. It was not JUST the rotten core of the Soviet Union.
It was the convergence of these leaders, at that time, with those factors, that created the outcome of the wall falling, and the later breakup of the Soviet "republic".
The foundations for the wall coming down were laid in the early 1980's, by not one single leader or one single factor.
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Talking about the importance of a single factor, you know there was somewhat similar situation when Khrushchev came in power. USSR was doing much worse than US in terms of economic and military powers and Stalin's supporters were at key posts in the state. Khrushchev started the reforms but quickly stopped them just in responce to hostile economic and political pressures from outside the USSR.