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You'll Never Guess What Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Believes Caused the Collapse of the U.S.S.R.

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During an appearance on Joss Stone’s A Cuppa Happy podcast, songwriter Dave Stewart claimed that it was Mikhail Gorbachev who had put forward this following theory to him in the Nineties that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“What Gorbachev was saying – it was Dallas, the TV show,” said Stewart. “Somebody managed to get a VHS to work and broadcast it to part of Russia and they thought, ‘Hang on, that’s how people live in America.’”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mikhail-gorbachev-dallas-dave-stewart-ussr-communism-b1366515.html
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
Tbh that sounds like complete nonsense, but it is a bit reminiscent of what happened in Romania.

In the 80s, Western media was pretty easily available in the USSR.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@QuixoticSoul

But it makes such a hilarious great story!

Russians had all sorts of fantasies about America back then.

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