>Again, you're twisting words here. I'm not dismissing US contribution to build up europe again and keeping us safe, BUT I DON'T SEE A SIGNIFICANT US ROLE IN THE DOWNFALL OF THE USSR.

From http://www.raleightavern.org/lovell.htm:

Peter Schweizer...has devoted an entire book, to demonstrating how decisive Reagan's anti-Communist strategy was in bringing down the "Evil Empire."...(he) develops a credible scenario, if not for the single-handed toppling of the Soviet Union, at least for providing a push sufficient to help tumble it into history's much remarked upon dustbin.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1995/BMH.htm:

The question that remains is: how much of what happened to the USSR was going to happen anyway, and how much resulted from the efforts of President Reagan and his administration? Was it just coincidence that the closing years of the Soviet empire mirrored those of the most anti-Communist President in U.S. history? The purpose of this paper is to inquire as to the specificity of President Reagan's plan to bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union and to discover if his policies constituted a new form of containment. This Study is germane to a complete understanding of the United State's part in the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and to the larger issues surrounding the appropriate application of national power to "contain" another nation's growth.

The Role of Afghanistan in the fall of the USSR - a pretty good read in and of itself.

ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION - Excerpts from Economics and the Arms Race: A Two-Edged Sword, David Adams, Political Affairs, September/October 1991

Given the similarity in the underlying economic dynamic in the two societies, why did the Soviet economy fall first? (Lloyd) Dumas correctly predicted this in 1986 because the Soviets were trying to match U.S. arms production, weapon for weapon, with a smaller initial baseline economy

There are literally hundreds of books examining the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in each and every one of them you will find a common theme: us verses them, USA vs. USSR, from 1945 until the fall. The Soviet Union was not a healthy country when it finally disolved in 1991, and the US was a big part of why it wasn't healthy.