I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. … - Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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