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The Warsaw Pact Fell Like Dominoes – Sarah Paine

Full episode:    • Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War   Me on twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp Final Sarah Paine lecture: Why Russia lost the Cold War. To me, the most interesting question is not why the Soviet Union ultimately collapsed - it's how a brutal, centrally planned, stupendously inefficient, colonial land empire survived for so long. I was surprised to learn about the central role that oil played in sustaining (and eventually dissolving) the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the Soviet system was in a crisis. Soviet growth rates had started to slow significantly as compared to the booming West. USSR's heavy-industry based economy was energy-starved. The 1953 CIA-backed coup in Iran blocked Soviet access to Iranian oil.