From the text book:
For example Gorbachev at a session of the Russian Politburo in October 1986 tried to sell a groundbreaking disarmament plan to the legislature, including a 50 percent reduction in nuclear arsenals. Russia's weak economy could not keep up with Reagan's military expansion. If he didn't propose these cuts, Gorbachev told his colleagues
[W]e will be pulled into an arms race that is beyond our capabilities, and we will lose it because we are at the limit of our capabilities. … If the new round [of an arms race] begins, the pressures on our economy will be unbelievable.Pope John Paul II provided a moral focus with his constant anti-communism sermons ; his visit to his native Poland in 1979 stimulated a religious and nationalist resurgence centered on the Solidarity movement that galvanized opposition. Reagan also imposed economic sanctions on Poland to protest the suppression of Solidarity. In response, Mikhail Suslov, the Kremlin's top ideologist, advised Soviet leaders not to intervene if Poland fell under the control of Solidarity, for fear it might lead to heavy economic sanctions, representing a further catastrophe for the Soviet economy. That "non-intervention" was the beginning of the slippery slope that lead to the easing of the communist oppression and the fall the Soviet Union.
But absolutely none of the above is in my Son's textbook. It is said that history is written by the victors, but in the case of Cold War history it is rewritten by the Progressives who want to indoctrinate our children to their inaccurate version of history.
(emphasis, mine)
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