There are a lot of people invested in this view for domestic political reasons, but the evidence doesn't support it. Look up Leonid Brezhnev's era. 18 years o

There are a lot of people invested in this view for domestic political reasons, but the evidence doesn't support it. Look up Leonid Brezhnev's era. 18 years of rot and stagnation. It was all over except the crying before Reagan even took office.