Alternative View: Could USSR Have Avoided Dissolution, Overcome Crisis? © AP Photo/ Bob Daugherty 16:47 17.08.2015Get short URL http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150817/1025837938.html What was the role of the West and the Soviet elite in the dissolution of the USSR, dubbed by President Vladimir Putin as the “biggest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century? US political scientist and geo-strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski noted in 1990, […]