The Soviet Union was bound to collapse eventually. But the fact that it collapsed as peacefully as it did exactly 25 years ago on Sunday is largely a tribute to one leader: George H.W. Bush. History will remember America’s 41st President for ensuring that so large and authentically historic an event could take place so casually.There are other reasons for the demise of the USSR on Christmas Day 1991: the U.S. defense build-up during the Reagan years, the forces of glasnost and perestroika that Mikhail Gorbachev unleashed, the implosion of central planning, the failure of Marxism-Leninism, and the revolt of …read more
Source: The American Interest
