re: Soviet Union History

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it would only take one event to make that domino fall and that event turned out to be Chernobyl.

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I'm just finishing up A Failed Empire and an argument could be made that the first domino was the invasion of Afghanistan. Add in low oil prices and Gorbachev taking power with his reforms. Chernobyl certainly had a huge impact on Gorbachev's thinking about the hopeless situation of nuclear war.