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Actively engaged in the international arms trade; part-time defense contractor and part-time UCSB student working to secure greater rights for defense corporations.
Spencer Level
Last updated on May 24, 2023
Topics: Political Science
Although ethnic nationalism and democratization contributed greatly to the downfall of the Soviet Union, the primary catalyst of Soviet collapse was the Soviet-Afghan War. The conflict exacerbated existing ethnic and cultural divides in the hinterlands of the Soviet empire, and the dramatic Russian loss broadcasted the fact that the Red Army was not invincible to foreign powers and internal dissidents alike, emboldening the first breakaway republics and enabling the eventual dissolution of the S...
