The Soviet economy was crumbling, long before Reagan and the people of this Dictatorship called communism wanted freedom from repression. Communism does not work with the human need for freedom, expression and desire to achieve. It just doesn't work. All Reagan did was keep the military industrial complex happy and enslave our nation in debt, he spent more than all previous presidents combined. He lost us the cold war.
Easy example from the joke archives of the Cold war: Reagan and Gorbachev ran a race. Reagan came first, Gorbachev came second. American media reported that Reagan beat Gorbachev, showing true American competitive spirit. Soviet media reported: President Gorbachev secured a wonderful silver medal. Reagan came next-to-last. Both true. The sad on the funny, you see it too often.
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Gorbachev's policies leaned toward democratizing Russia and eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The world was very fortunate that he and Reagan/Bush were able to compromise.
Reagan poured alot of money into the US military; under Reagan, the standard US Servicemen's paycheck seemed to have tripled; as soon as he took office.President Reagan did not end the Cold War. The Soviet Union collapsed under a myriad of social, political and economic factors.
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned Christmas day, 1991 following the Fall of the Berlin Wall and he resigned in order to bring a democratic reform to Russia. He was said to end the Cold War."Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" -Ronald Reagan
In 1987, both Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States, were jointly named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for their efforts to bring about change and peace in the Cold War era.
Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nikita Kruscheyev, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Ronald Reagan.
They had a mutual respect for each other, and both ultimately were striving for the same thing. Ronald Reagan is frequently cited as the man who toppled Communism and ended the Cold War, but I feel Gorbachev deserves a lot more of the credit than Reagan does.
Mikhail Gorbachev. He and Reagan signed the treaty that end the cold war. Gorbachev also famous for his reformation movement in Soviet Union (USSR), Glasnot and Perestroika, that marked the beginning of the end of USSR as a country.
Ronald Reagan .
Most historians would say that the cold war ended thanks to the cooperation of then-Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev with American President Ronald Reagan. Other people were also involved, but these two men were the main reason the animosity and mistrust between the Soviet Union and the United States ended.
Each played a major role in ending the Cold War