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A very Anglocentric view of the end of the Cold War. Gorbachev was the instigator and it was his decisions that ended it. In 1981 at the height of Solidarity crisis in Poland the USSR told Jaruzelski that if he didn't personally do something to end it then they would send the tanks in. Fast...

As someone who a) Lived through the period, and b) Studied East European history to Masters level, this statement is absolute bollocks. There are a number of long and short term causes on why the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe failed but in the main the decision taken by Gorbachev not to...