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The fall of the Soviet Union cannot be completely put on any one person or any one reason. Those who say Reagan was the reason are wrong just as those who say it was all deficit or spending or what not.
My own research says its was a combination of years of extravagent spending (Brezhnev incresaed the military without any possibility of supporting it in the long run), a failing system (communism itself) leading to internal pressure, quick reforms that were well-intentioned but were volatile and unpredictable (Gorbachev's), years of outside pressure (early days of containment all the way to Reagan), and years of oppression which pushed people for freedom (most important imo).
And anyways back on the original topic: it's just not a big issue.
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