Editing The Cold War (section)

==End of the Cold War==
Eventually this era ended from the Soviet Union imploding than anything else. Already a command economy that was more concerned with building military hardware than economy boosting utilities and consumer goods, its fortunes were often dependent on natural gas and oil exports seeing no one takes its currency seriously.  Things first began to fall apart when Russia decided they wanted to have their own Vietnam and invaded Afghanistan, leading the US to support local tribes who eventually [[FAIL|became the Taliban, which bit the US in the ass very hard as soon as the Soviets were out of the picture]]. The Soviet Union also failed to modernize its bureaucracy into digital systems, both due to higher echelons of Communist Party of the Soviet Union lacking the balls to actually implement projects proposed by the scientists and the subsequent lack of the industrial base to do so on scale required when advantages became clear; right up until its collapse in 1991, despite multiple efforts by the more far-sighted, the USSR's top-down planned economy was [[FAIL|''never computerised.'']]  Then a nuclear reactor in the Ukraine exploded so hard [[3.6 Roentgen|you could get your tan on walking fully clothed at night]], and that took about a thousand regiments of the [[Death Korps of Krieg]] to clean up.  This was followed by a series of revolutions in Soviet states would lead to East Germany (led by hardline Stalinists to the end) giving up, opening the border and reunifying with West Germany within a year. This caused further turmoil in Russia by a failed coup that lead to the end of the Communist Party and fall of the Soviet Union. With generations that expected the Cold War to end in some world sundering conflict, many westerners found "your enemy implodes politically without much direct provocation by you" to be an extremely underwhelming ending, with a CIA official complaining that "instead of a dragon, now we have a jungle of snakes to keep track of". Those on the east of the wall are often a bit annoyed that decades of communism has left their economies severely stunted compared to the west (to this day, decades latter, eastern Germany is still far behind the west economically), and within Russia proper there is nostalgia for the Soviet Union (communism itself less so) that has been exacerbated even further by enormous amounts of profiteering and corruption within the post-Soviet governments, and the West's response of "it's not our problem, leave them to rot" has ultimately led to the old US-Russia tensions flaring right back up again.