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buzzyone rated 33 months ago- The CIA History Group does excellent work. However, what you are seeing is far from the full picture. If you talk with policy-makers, one group will tell you that there were signs that the USSR was in trouble in the 1960's. On the other side of the story, some Reagan administration officals think Ronny brought them down single-handly. Not quite that major a disagreement, but 20years seperates a few groups of former presidental advisors on this matter. At the end of the day, the USSR was going to fail and did.
- Jack-Benny rated 33 months ago
- "The National Intelligence Estimates and other intelligence assessments reprinted below reveal publicly for the first time how the US Intelligence Community interpreted and predicted the rapidly unfolding events that led to the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War."
- nolabeagle rated 33 months ago
- interesting site, very informative
- Diocletian9 rated 36 months ago
- Very poignant reading. Such a crying shame that Gorbachev's notion of "pan-human values" has been so utterly lost.
- warmsweetsensati rated 37 months ago
- very interesting
- Handler rated 38 months ago
- From the page: "President George Bush entered office in January 1989 determined to put his own stamp on America's foreign policy and make US-Soviet relations its main focus. 4 He intended to build on the legacy of his predecessor without reprising Ronald Reagan's policy. On 15 February 1989 the President ordered a review of US policy toward the USSR and Eastern Europe, which, for a variety of political and bureaucratic reasons, took longer and proved more complicated than expected. 5 In behind-the-scenes discussions, the new foreign policy team quickly divided into those who wanted to open an immediate dialogue with Gorbachev and those who took a skeptical view of the new-style Soviet leader. 6 The first Soviet challenge to the new Bush administration arrived even before the President's inauguration. To reverse the foreign policy course inherited from his predecessors and to relieve tensions that had accumulated in US-Soviet relations in the 1970s and 1980s, in 1987 Gorbachev signed the US-Soviet Treaty on Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF), the first nuclear arms reduction (actually an arms destruction) accord in history. Then in 1988, he announced his intention to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan within a year. 7 Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in December 1988, Gorbachev went further, delivering the most important foreign policy speech of his career. He renounced class warfare as the basis of Soviet foreign policy, embraced "pan-humanist values" and "global interdependence," and pledged to convert an "economy of armaments into an economy of disarmament." He invited the US to cooperate in ending the Cold War by halting the arms race and seeking settlements of regional conflicts. Then he made dramatic unilateral concessions, pledging to reduce Soviet ground forces by 500,000 and to withdraw 50,000 troops from Eastern Europe, as well as 10,000 tanks, 8,500 artillery systems, and 800 combat aircraft, over a two-year period. 8 The speech had a stunning impact in Western Europe--and not just there. The New York Times, not normally given to hyperbole, wrote: Perhaps not since Woodrow Wilson presented his Fourteen Points in 1918 or since Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promulgated the Atlantic Charter in 1941 has a world figure demonstrated the vision Mikhail Gorbachev displayed yesterday at the United Nations. 9"
- Smallberries rated 38 months ago
- pssst. The Cold War never ended. Pass it on.
- BlackPhoenix rated 38 months ago
At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991
- pillai rated 52 months ago
- A few declassified documents from the Cold War era.
