1980 should have been a good year for the Soviet Union. Finally, fifty-eight years after the creation of the Soviet Union and entering the sixteenth year of Leonid Brezhnev’s boring but stable leadership, the country could relax and feel that the worst was behind it. Domestically, normality had been achieved; better times must lie ahead. Internationally, the country had become a superpower after World War II, admittedly still number two to the United States, but now at last reaching military parity.
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