Question by javi: How did the Soviet Union Empire got defeated during the Cold War?
I haven’t got to that part in school yet but how did the Soviet Empire got defeated During the Cold War. they where so huge .
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Answer by toms1266
It got so big that it couldn’t hold on to what it had, and all the ethnic people it had oppressed saw the chance to seize their freedom and they took it. And so the USSR broke up into a whole bunch of countries.
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augie6_1 says
By working with Mikhail Gorbachev rather than against him, Ronald Reagan helped to strengthen the growing spirit of reform within the Soviet Union. In the end, that reform movement developed a momentum all its own, pushing far beyond even Gorbachev's objectives, leading to the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union and the rapid dismantling of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991.
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Peace through blindi says
They had literally been accustomed to Western Democracies propping them up with aid.
The short answer is "They weren't sufficiently capitalist" to be self-sufficient and they ultimately collapsed of their own lumbering inefficiency.
Reality has a Libera says
Reagan outspent them.
Captain A. Exeter says
It didn't the leader Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev didn't really like communism and ended the soviet union himself also many countries part of the soviet union wanted independents.
ducky aka Mr Duck says
Most of the credit goes to
Pope John Paul II
and
Poland's Solidarity Movement (lead by Lech Walesa)
so.. religion & a workers union