The effect of the Soviet economy on the end of the Cold War was that A. High levels of unemployment and financial crises forced the Soviet government to decrease spending..
<h3>Why did the Soviet economy fail?</h3><h3 />
The Soviet economy experienced heavy financial crisis in the late 1980s as a result of decades of overspending on weapons to match the U.S.
As a result, the economy suffered a setback and they had to stop producing so many weapons which led to the U.S. winning the Cold War.
