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Article: Who broke the Evil Empire? (secretive strategy of the Reagan Administration to force the collapse of the Soviet Union's political, social and economic systems)
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- National Review
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- May 30, 1994
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FIVE YEARS have now passed since the Berlin Wall was breached, the first material sign of the Soviet empire's decline and fall. As the annals of current history continue to be written, a great geopolitical riddle remains: Did the Reagan Administration somehow trigger the collapse of the Evil Empire?
Shortly after the demise of the Soviet Union, Strobe Talbott, on the talk show Inside Washington, said: "The difference from the Kremlin standpoint...between a conservative Republican Administration and a liberal Democratic Administration was not that great. The Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War ended almost overwhelmingly because of internal contradictions or ...