So where was Reagan in all this, playing hop scotch?

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

It is an overstatement no matter how you cut it. Read the article link I posted above. The collapse did not happen overnight as Skybird said. It was a culmination of MANY things INCLUSIVE of Reagan's actions/speeches that precipitated the wall coming down. How can anyone deny Reagan was not a part of it?

I read the article and I agree to a certain extent with the conclusions.
I also said that the Soviet Union didn't collapse overnight, and that socio-economical, political and military problems that spanned decades were the root cause of its downfall.
I also never said Reagan didn't play a part in all of this, I just think that his part was pretty small in the grand scale of the events of '89.