maybe fell a bit sooner and faster than expected, but surely the USA/UK etc. wouldn’t have employed sanctions, trade restrictions, and embargoes against the USSR if they didn’t expect it to work …
They expected it to have an impact, my point is that from within the USSR dissolution didn’t seem to be a real probability until the very end. It was killed by the Yeltsin faction, not unsustainability.
Not really, up to the very end it was seen as absurd that it would fall.
maybe fell a bit sooner and faster than expected, but surely the USA/UK etc. wouldn’t have employed sanctions, trade restrictions, and embargoes against the USSR if they didn’t expect it to work …
They expected it to have an impact, my point is that from within the USSR dissolution didn’t seem to be a real probability until the very end. It was killed by the Yeltsin faction, not unsustainability.