It was Andropov that approached Reagan, and said “this has got to stop”. But, he was already too ill to do much about it.
The last 6 months, he was sending in letters to the Politburo, because he was too sick to attend.
This assumes that what the communists told us about the Perestroika on a public level is true, and that what defectors told us was really going on 8n the background was not.
It was Reagan who defeated the evil empire, not the empire beseeching Reagan to defeat them.