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Russia is a failed hell hole under this monster. Russia needs to be isolated from the rest of the world. Russians need to be banished from countries.
Gorbachev made an attempt to thaw relations and join the world. Russia didn't want that. They like their dictators.
None of which justifies a claim that Russia would commit an act of war against a NATO country.
Oh, and the thaw at the end of the USSR was less about trying to thaw relations, that had been tried before and the West learned most times it was only a ploy.
However, those who did not like the lessening of the restrictions were the hardliners like the KGB. Which is why they attempted a coup to return things to how they had been before.
However, it is a complete and utter failure to say "Russia didn't want that", as the populace turned out in overwhelming numbers to support the government. Which is why the coup failed. Because in a rare instance even the military refused to back the KGB, and the leadership of the coup either defenestrated themselves or ate Makarov sandwiches.
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