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Originally posted by Magnetonium I have spent 5 full years reading countless amount of information trying to trace back, calculate the reasons and the roots of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I have recently concluded my investigation, but I'd like to read as to what the talented TA community has to think. Please vote and post your quick explanation/detail of your choice. Please be serious and professional. I'll respect the opinions / educated estimations/explanations, and might throw in some notes or replies. Thanks in advance.

I am not all that familiar with the collapse of the Soviet Union. I do believe it was a combination of mismanagement and foreign intervention. The amount of interference the US and other 'western' countries exerted over affair related to the Soviet Union was in my opinion great and negative. If there had been less animosity from the international community I think the fate of the Soviet Union would have been different.

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Orbax At that point you kind of crossed the rubicon and you might as well lay siege to Rome

im not well versed in this either, but i was under the impression that the soviets just couldn't afford to maintain the arms race they had with the US and the economic conditions precipitated the collapse?

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probably all of the above.

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Originally posted by Magnetonium I have spent 5 full years reading countless amount of information trying to trace back, calculate the reasons and the roots of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I have recently concluded my investigation

you are obligated to share your expert opinion on this topic by writing a book.

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i also think the russian government had pre-positioned explosive code in their economic system, which they detonated to bring down the USSR and enforce democracy on the populace and used this as an excuse to un-invade much of eastern europe.

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Economic hardships...brought upon by an anti-capitalist attitude is what led to the implosion.

Bush & Co.

some how, some where.... it was Bush

I'm going to say Perestroika.

When they cracked opened the window of freedom to a people stifled by their government, they (the government) could not shut it again.

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People got fed up with first the economic hardship. No one was supposed to have a profit motive, so no company operated for profit, nor was there the motive for innovation caused by competition. That all resulted in rampant curruption. The government essentially went broke.

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[resists urge to make tasteless toilet paper comment]

Same here..

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