From the Soviet Union to Putin's Russia By Alan Caruba

When the government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the fall was attributed to all kinds of reasons. There was the failed invasion of Afghanistan, the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and, after some desperate efforts by Mikhail Gorbechev, Communism as a guiding principle and economic system simply imploded. That's the thumbnail version that passes for history, but Michael J. Economides and Donna Marie D'Aleo have another answer and it's one you may not want to hear.

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