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

Originally Posted by Aramike

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.

Being far away doesn't mean that person knows what they are talking about either. Actually less so. And that's the whole point.

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.

How about giving some actual links to facts that "the USSR had spent itself to oblivion". Are you saying they owed money to someone? Who? How much?

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.

Or in fact the Russians won because there was no third world war against them, just like there was two in the earlier half of the 20th century. Of which both were won by the Russian people. And they actually had to do some fighting on their own soil, for the survival of their people. Not just bombing Japanese and German civilians from high in the air.