--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> But the Soviet elite realized it couldn't match the
> U.S. arms
> buildup, no?
This is actually a hotly debated issue in Russia, but it is not a debate I have followed. Gorbachev himself says perestroika and glasnost had purely internal causes.
In any event, the actual decision to dissolve the USSR was opposed by Washington. Remember Bush I's Chicken Kiev speech, but he was booed by Ukrainian nationalists?
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