Soviet Union Pros And Cons

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"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr.Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”(Ronald Reagan)! During 1941 to 1991, the US and the Soviet Union have always been competing. Some examples include who got to the moon first, boycotting the Olympics and other actions. The USSR was communist and the United States are capitalist, which caused a lot of tension between the two countries. Both countries wanted to be a superpower which caused a lot of problems. They were also making nuclear threats to each other, which is not a good idea. The world would not exist and thrive as it does today if Reagan, …show more content…

After Gorbachev and Reagan met for the first time in person, they developed a relationship that could be best described as a “bromance”. Reagan invited Gorbachev to the US for a tour of New York, and many people on the side of the streets greeted Mr. Gorbachev with respect. Later that year, the leader of the USSR, invited President Reagan to Moscow, Russia. As soon as Mr. President landed and stepped out of his plane, he was greeted with a striking performance of the Russian Military doing their salute to President Reagan as Gorbachev showed him the way off the tarmac(Bret Baier). Gorbachev then showed President Reagan around Moscow, showing its magnificent building structures and people. President Reagan was then asked, “Do you still think you’re in an evil empire Mr. President?” President Reagan then replied with, “No, I was talking about another time, another era.”It is surprising how two very powerful leaders who were making threats on blowing each other up, come together and put an end to their heated conflict they had. They both put everything they had said in the past, and looked at the present and worked together to come to a compromise for both of the

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