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| A facet of victory many do not realize: The U.S. had to export its grain to the USSR. Even when things were hard in the U.S. during the late 1970s, the importation of grain to the USSR kept them dependent on the U.S. Therefore, their dependence on America might have kept them in check. |
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| As the decade of the 1980s came to a close, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact sped up with the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Even though Reagan and Gorbachev had talked and approved the IMF treaty in December 1987, the full effects of glastnost and perestroika were seen by the common man as images of the Berlin Wall collapsing, with citizens with chisels and hammers knocking the wall down and embracing. |
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| THE MAJOR PARTNERS today in the 50-year epic known as the Cold War are friendlier than they were in 1995, let alone 1985. Even though they are friendlier, there are still disputes about the EU and NATO and the UN. |
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