The Bush administration helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union by

The Bush administration generally supported Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms, which loosened Soviet political and economic controls. Those changes contributed to weakening the Soviet system and ultimately its collapse. Negotiating arms reductions and helping end the Cold War were important parts of Bush’s foreign policy, but the choice most directly linked to the Soviet collapse is supporting Gorbachev’s reforms.

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