Hypersonic

^ I honestly don't think many Russians (or citizens of the other former states of the USSR) harbour much resentment towards the United States ...some former Soviet leaders might.

But it was the citizens of the USSR itself, who played the biggest role in its destruction. I believe things started to disintegrate firstly in Poland in the 1970s when trade unions were formed that challenged the Soviet authorities.

I remember when the Berlin wall came down (I was a teenager at the time) ...it was a remarkable day. There would be very few Eastern Europeans, despite the difficult years following the collapse of the USSR, who would ever want to return to a Soviet-style system.