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Well I call that a load of crap. It helped, I know it helped a bit, but the star wars program hurt us much more than any benefit we derived from damaging them.
The real pain for Russia was costly wars, like Afghanistan and an arms race with China who the Soviet's shared the longest border in the world with. They were fiercely opposed to each other and that is where the majority of the Soviets arms race originated and where most of their hardware was.
The Soviets may have been our principal nemesis, but to them China was more important.
Add to that the horrible instability of Russias economy because of the bad way their leaders managed everything, and there you have the reason Russia fell; Mismanaged economy and arms race with China.
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