在冷战正酣的时候，戈尔巴乔夫在苏联推出了改革与新思维的自由化政策，而美国总统里根推出了战略导弹防御系统，并在阿富汗和其他地区的实施双边战争代理人战争。
Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalizing policies of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union emerged at one of the Cold War’s darkest hours, with US President Ronald Reagan pushing for strategic missile defense and the two sides fighting proxy wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere.