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Originally Posted by whell
You're right. Solidarity snuck into East Germany agitated for and end to Soviet occupation of the East. Then, they somehow fooled Moscow into spending billions of rubles on a national defense program that they could never sustain.
Brilliant, those Poles.
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The Poles had a lot to do with it. So did the (Polish) Pope. Mostly, though, the Sovs did it to themselves by bleeding their economy dry in Afghanistan, to say nothing of their Five Year Plans which kepthetting them deeper and deeper in the hole.
John