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Citations

This is a pretty good article. One thing it needs is in-line citations. The references at the bottom are good, but that is not enough. Many points in this article are the subject of considerable debate among historians. This doesn't take away from the article's value, its just that it needs to reflect the debate a little more. This article has done very well considering its age. Moomot 22:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline

The timeline currently has but 1 point, this needs to be fixed up. I would do it myself, but my knowledge in the era isn't the greatest. Anyone care to fix this? 59.101.43.3 03:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Intro

Expanded the introduction. Seems like a good article otherwise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.121.70 (talk) 00:58, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited the Intro. "...much as it might have liked., September 18th 1991 Regardless, the USSR..." the date in this line is out of place and has been removed. It was caused by a code snip: ", September 18th 1991 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)" which I have also removed. I dont know what this code was supposed to do, it only displayed a text-based date; itd be easier just to type the actual date. 74.128.56.194 (talk) 02:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Paul II

A note of John Paul II work to end the cold war by the meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at the Vatican. 76.4.226.221 (talk) 11:16, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image titled "Alliances in 1980."

When i try to open this picture it takes me to google docs and tells me its unable to generate a view of the document... anyone else having this problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.55.111.2 (talk) 00:36, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nations that lost territory after the Cold War

I disagree with listing China under this section. In the post-Cold War border agreements between China and Russia/Tajikistan/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan, the PRC had gained (or regained) territory that were taken by Czarist Russia in 19th century. Although the PRC had made substantial compromises in accepting less, these were still territories that were not under PRC's control, and the agreements were made possible with the fall of USSR. Adeptitus (talk) 17:14, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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1991?!

I'm really unsure about the accuracy of this article as Bush and Gorbachev declared an 'official end' of the Cold War in December 1989. I think there might be some confusion here between the official end of the Cold War and the final break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. The existence of one and/or the other do not imply the existence of both -

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/a-day-that-shook-the-world-cold-war-officially-ends-2149069.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/3/newsid_4119000/4119950.stm

https://www.upi.com/On-This-Day-Bush-Gorbachev-announce-end-to-Cold-War/6731512239385/

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Soviet Premier declared Cold War ended in 1989

This is fascinating - and the detail should certainly be included in the article. After all, Mr Gorbachev was a major participant in the events of the time. This is from an interview with Mr Gorbachev conducted in 2009 - https://www.thenation.com/article/gorbachev-1989/

KVH/SFC: A closely related question: when did the cold war actually end? In the United States, there are several answers: in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down; in 1990-91, after the reunification of Germany; and the most popular, even orthodox, answer, is that the cold war ended only when the Soviet Union ended, in December 1991. MG: No. If President Ronald Reagan and I had not succeeded in signing disarmament agreements and normalizing our relations in 1985-88, the later developments would have been unimaginable. But what happened between Reagan and me would also have been unimaginable if earlier we had not begun perestroika in the Soviet Union. Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor. Something had to be done before we destroyed each other. Therefore the big changes that occurred with me and Reagan had tremendous importance. But also that George H.W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan, decided to continue the process. And in December 1989, at our meeting in Malta, Bush and I declared that we were no longer enemies or adversaries. KVH/SFC: So the cold war ended in December 1989? MG: I think so. KVH/SFC: Many people disagree, including some American historians. MG: Let historians think what they want. But without what I have described, nothing would have resulted. Let me tell you something. George Shultz, Reagan’s secretary of state, came to see me two or three years ago. We reminisced for a long time–like old soldiers recalling past battles. I have great respect for Shultz, and I asked him: "Tell me, George, if Reagan had not been president, who could have played his role?" Shultz thought for a while, then said: "At that time there was no one else. Reagan’s strength was that he had devoted his whole first term to building up America, to getting rid of all the vacillation that had been sown like seeds. America’s spirits had revived. But in order to take these steps toward normalizing relations with the Soviet Union and toward reducing nuclear armaments–there was no one else who could have done that then."

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