Ronald Reagan was largely known to be an anti-communist and a fierce Cold Warrior, but he also took a big role in ending the Cold War.
Despite that Reagan took a policy called Reagan Doctrine, that was a policy to weaken the Soviet Union by aiding anti-communist resistance movements and manipulating governments in a series of places such as Asia and Africa.
With this series of movements, Reagan was able to weaken the Soviet Union by forcing them to invest in military and increasing social and economic problems internally. With that, Reagan found in Gorbachev a good ally and signed the nuclear arms reductions agreement ending the Cold War.
Civilians were not able to do anything, so they were killed the same ratio to military that fought the enemy. There was also no rules or laws that they can’t kill civilians
They were the most ruthless and radical political groups that created fear during the Reign of Terror. Fear how? From democratic initiatives to public violence.