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>The idea of USSR collapsing because it's people got tired of it and that made it's government sorta kinda give up is some grade A Langley bullshit that exists wholly and entirely to adjust variables to a theory that was declared true in advance, and is so blatantly false that it is not respected even by American academia.
Operation Trust's strategic deception on the Whites and their West backers built the Soviet State and statecraft-- the legal basis for then already operationalized decentralization wanted by Lenin for ages was formalized in 1970. Everything that followed aligns with the picture painted by high ranking defectors characterization of the 'collapse' of the USSR - because of some shitty German Wall - and the only way it could have gone better, was if the completely 'sincere' overture for Russia to join NATO was approved allowing unprecedented walk-in access to conduct espionage free and clear