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Khrushchev’s shoe incident happened 20 years before Reagan was president.
by russler23 7y ago
Khrushchev’s shoe incident happened 20 years before Reagan was president.
- vkou 7y agoTo explain, and ruin the joke: I am purposefully, and quite absurdly, conflating Khrushchev's rather embarrassing shoe debacle with the rather embarrassing overstatement of Reagan's oratorical prowess and influence, in the affair of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many people hold to the mistaken belief that he can take any credit for it. [1] [1] Occasionally, they trot out 'Star Wars bankrupts the Soviet Union' as his greatest triumph. No, it wasn't eight years of Star Wars that starved the Soviet Economy, it was eight decades of military spending taking up >40% of GDP.