The United States admitted that the collapse of the USSR took the American government by surprise – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

According to him, in those years no one, not even the CIA, expected the collapse of the Soviet Union. “This event took the US government by surprise,” RIA Novosti quotes Roberts.

The agency’s interlocutor admitted that today some conservative American politicians attribute the victory in the Cold War with the USSR to Reagan. This is nonsense, Roberts emphasized.

“Reagan told those of us who were there that the goal was not to win the Cold War, but to end it,” he said.

Previously, from declassified documents from the US National Archives, it became known that former US leader Bill Clinton, during negotiations with the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, promised to work on “close cooperation” between the two countries. According to the owner of the White House, work must begin to advance START II, ​​and the presidents decided to agree to the first face-to-face meeting in a third country.