Good conversation. Why didn’t Communist leaders resist the collapse of Communism? Why did they let the Cold War end peacefully after all the years of forced compliance to communist principles and practices? Did they never consider force?

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Good conversation. Why didn’t Communist leaders resist the collapse of Communism? Why did they let the Cold War end peacefully after all the years of forced compliance to communist principles and practices? Did they never consider force?

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To what extent did individual personalities play a role in the end of the Cold War? Assess the role of such key personalities as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Would the Cold War have ended without them?

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