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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1265355, member: 26302&quot;]I agree with Camaro that the pressure at least sped up the collapse. They were spending an extraordinary amount of GDP to try to keep up with Reagan. Reagan intentionally applied this pressure, and said as much afterwards. He had no need of a large military, consistently turning down opportunities to get involved militarily around the world. He just wanted to pressure the Soviet economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did it &quot;bring it down&quot; by itself? No, it was a flawed economy. I also though believe it sped up its demise, to the benefit of most of the world. I feel bad for the suffereing the Russian people went through though. I had friends there and sent what little help I could at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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