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The basic decisions were made by then President Bush and his secretary of state and national security adviser (interestingly, the main sceptic at the time was Mr Cheney, who argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not against America's global interests).
Finally, my thesis adviser in grad school has researched Russian demographics for over 30 years, including during the Brezhnev period when basic demographic indicators were state secrets (he had to painstakingly assemble estimates by laboriously pouring over specialized virology and immunology journals which had a few data points scattered throughout them).