The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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The Cold War and the Soviet Union
With the development of nuclear weapons, this whole idea simply became inconceivable. So the Soviet Union became indestructible just as the United States was indestructibles and it only could succumb to its own internal pressures. Of course, this is what happened ultimately to the Soviet Union. It fell apart not because it was threatened by the United States, but because it bankrupted itself or its system was not working.
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