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留学生论文专业定制代写网站 专业提供留学生各类essay定制写作服务 留学生Essay写作—柏林墙的倒塌 The Fall of the Berlin Wall The history books,the political polemics,and economic and the geopolitical analyses of the fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union fill shelves with cruel crimes committed for the party and proletariat under the dreaded regimes of Stalin,Khrushchev,and Brezhnev. The end of the empire,however,was humiliatingly public,glowing on millions of television screens as sledgehammers tore chunks out of the Berlin Wall. The end of the end began in 1985 with the ascendancy of Mikhail Gorbachev and a new generation of Soviet leaders born after Stalin and his paranoid terrors had died.Ironically,the penultimate cause of the collapse was the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan,where it fought a hopeless war for nearly a decade,which that almost crushed its economy to a halt and,like the Vietnam war,called into question national leadership and purpose.The presidency passed from a rather incompetent Jimmy Carter to Ronald Regan,who had no appetite for further appeasement with the Kremlin.Historian Paul Johnson argues that the tremendous losses in Afghanistan left the Soviet Union incapable of facing President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative,and the new leadership in Moscow realized that their imperial ventures had caused the Soviet economy to rust(History of the American People 928-29). “For our internal progress,”Gorbachev said in 1987,“we need normal international relations.”The Soviets had to catch up to the rising prosperity and technological advances of Europe and North America.The Soviet Union had to concentrate on domestic development and promote international peace whenever possible.However,it could only accomplish such a goal by giving up any global ambitions.Therefore,as Paul Johnson and other historians point out,Gorbachev abandoned the traditional Soviet anti-western orientation.He wanted to integrate the Soviet Union into the main currents of modern life and

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