The post-war period and the Cold War
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creased support for military deployment, overseen by Reagan, which stood in place until the later accords between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The Able Archer 83 has. caught up with the Soviet system, which now seems to expend more energy on simply maintaining its equilibrium than on improving itself. We could be seeing a period of foreign movement at a time of internal decay". The Soviets were not helped by their aged and sclerotic leadership either: Brezhnev, virtually incapacitated in his last years, was succeeded by Andropov and Chernenko, neither of whom lasted long. After Chernenko's death, Reagan was asked why he had not negotiated with Soviet leaders. Reagan quipped, "They keep dying on me".
Final years (1985-91)
By the time the comparatively youthful Mikhail Gorbachev , who threatened to secede from the USSR. The Commonwealth of Independent States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_Sta