1. Starting in the 1980's, my life was focused on the cold war so I remember fairly well what was generally advanced as the major causes of the USSR's demise. I can recall Putin angrily commenting on it not that long ago. My recollection was that it's generally agreed
2. that the Reagan administration's strategy targeting Soviet technocrats to get them emigrate, was the final nail in the Soviet coffin that could no longer operate an increasingly complex civil society. It impacted all parts of
3. Soviet society including education, medicine engineering and the military. That strategy took years to work. Putin will accomplish it again in a few weeks. Only Russian proletariat will remain. The intelligentsia, bourgeoisie and most petite bourgeoisie will all again flee.
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