A collapse that was mainly due to decades of under-funding of society for over-funding of the military, shattered due to a prestige loss from the disaster in Afghanistan, and the desertion of it's sphere of influence.
Gorbachev had to make a bunch more mistakes beyond Afghanistan for the Union to go down.
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