<<The legacy of RR is:
Soviet Union Crumbled>>
We're going waaaaaay off topic here. However, I'd like to hopefully shed a little light on that one. My wife is Russian, and I've visited that part of the world several times. It did not fall apart because Reagan said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear town this wall." It died due to it's own weight of internal oppressiveness, economic failures, corruption, and one man who could not possibly foresee the snowball effect of his perestroika ideas. Once Gorbachev let his people have a glimpse of freedom, there was no way to stop it. However, if Gorbachev hadn't loosened the reigns a bit, and there had been another typical hard-line Soviet leader, there may well have been a very big, very bloody civil war.
It was also the explosion of modern communication technologies that finally let people see what was happening beyond their "iron curtain."
Believe me, it wasn't Reagan, or Carter, or Ford, or Nixon or any president. Totalitarian regimes have a habit of collapsing in on themselves.