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The breakdown of the Soviet Union was mainly due to lack of funding (for the military, that is), as well as the coming of the post-WWII generation, which was much more rebellious and liberal than its predecessors. The American government had purposefully overextended its military throughout the 1980s in an effort to scare the Soviet government into building up ITS military in turn; using hindsight, we can see that it worked.

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