Quote Originally Posted by Spartiate View Post
A lot of the pressure came from within the government and the military who were seeing a lowering of troop morale and no results. Also in the late 80s under Gorbachev, a lot of freedoms were given to the Soviet public (including free speech and freedom of assembly) and the public voiced their opinions against the war in Afghanistan. The Soviets were there for 10 years and killed over half a million of the enemy, what did they have to be afraid about?
I already told you. The United States and what we might end up doing.

I'm sure the Soviet government really gave a shit what the public thought. Gorbachev did make positive reforms, but the Soviet government was never one over which the people had ultimate authority.

Quote Originally Posted by Spartiate View Post
Cold War propaganda. From the Soviets' perspective, it was the Americans who were taking over the world.
Communist propaganda. You can't take over the world with democracy, but you can with totalitarianism. I'm sure you're really terrified that we are going to take over Canada.

Quote Originally Posted by Spartiate View Post
Do you speak for Soviet generals now?
No, just about them.