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They angered the Saudis with their Afghanistan War while being heavily reliant on oil export income. So the Saudis abolished the OPEC oil production caps, the global oil prices crashed to single digit levels and the Soviets lost their export income. So the old men in the Politbüro decided to put the fate of the Soviet Union in the hands of a radical reformer who promised miraculous prosperity through economic privatization and liberalization: Michael Gorbatchov. Five years later the Soviet Union was bankrupt and all its member republics declared independence.