Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant to the Treasury chief in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, said: RIA NewsThe United States did not expect the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the country’s leadership in those years believed in the necessity of ending the Cold War, not winning it.
In his opinion, conservatives justify Reagan as the winner of the Cold War, but in reality the USSR collapsed three years after Reagan left the presidency.
“No one, including the CIA, expected the collapse of the Soviet Union. This incident took the U.S. government by surprise,” Roberts said.
The former official noted that Reagan told those attending these events that the goal was not to win the Cold War, but to end it.
On November 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks via video link at the meeting of the World Russian People’s Council, in the name Do not forget the lessons of the 1917 revolution and the collapse of the USSR.
Putin before named The collapse of the USSR was a tragedy.
Source: Gazeta
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