Comrade Alex is proud to present:

Comrade Alex's Top Ten Reasons for the Collapse of the Soviet Union

10. Could never get over the defection of Mikhail Baryshnikov to Canada in 1974.

9. Country suffered from significant lack of “Stalin” brand bushy moustaches.

8. Two words: Yakov Smirnoff
7. Never that worried about the Star Wars program….because it happened “in a galaxy far far away.”

6. Those little triangular guitars.

5. Ghost of Lenin spent most of the 80’s partying with the ghost of Ghandi.

4. Reagan and Gorbachev decided the fate of the Cold War over a game of Candyland.

3. Foolishly built the Kremlin out of Gingerbread.

2. In the late seventies, Brezhnev replaced all of the KGB secret operatives with Capuchin Monkeys.

1. Vodka in the Juice boxes, caused long term brain damage in the Soviet youth.

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