Who benefited from the end of the Cold War?

Shows who gained or lost, and who disputes a study that says so, in the words of whoever says it.

Not that anyone caused it.

5 links · 3 accounts · 1989–1991

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Named in 2 of the 3 accounts recorded here (Gained): United States

According to Fidel Castro

Soviet Union harmed by Scholarship & press 1 And I don't know whether anyone can doubt that the socialist camp and the USSR lost the Cold War.
Castro names the socialist camp alongside the USSR. Interview recorded for CNN's Cold War series in March 1998, translated from Spanish.
United States benefited from Scholarship & press 1 At the end of the Cold War, one superpower ceased to exist, and only one superpower remained, which had absolute hegemony. The bipolar world was transformed into a unipolar world, leaving the United States with enormous power.
Interview recorded for CNN's Cold War series in March 1998, translated from Spanish.

According to Mikhail Gorbachev

Humanity benefited from Primary record 2 After all, mankind has already benefited greatly in recent years, and this has created a certain positive momentum. The Cold War is over. The risk of a global nuclear war has practically disappeared.
Nobel Peace Prize lecture, Oslo, 5 June 1991.
Soviet Union benefited from Scholarship & press 3 “Americans thought they’d won the Cold War, and this went to their heads,” he says. “What victory? It was our joint victory. We all won.”
Said in Werner Herzog's film Meeting Gorbachev (2018), as quoted in The New York Times review.

According to United States government

United States benefited from Primary record 4 But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the cold war.

Proof 4 sources

CNN Cold War - Interviews: Fidel Castro (Episode 24), CNN, 1999. Scholarship & press Archived copy
And I don't know whether anyone can doubt that the socialist camp and the USSR lost the Cold War.
At the end of the Cold War, one superpower ceased to exist, and only one superpower remained, which had absolute hegemony. The bipolar world was transformed into a unipolar world, leaving the United States with enormous power.
Mikhail Gorbachev – Nobel Lecture, The Nobel Foundation (NobelPrize.org), 5 Jun 1991. Primary record Archived copy
After all, mankind has already benefited greatly in recent years, and this has created a certain positive momentum. The Cold War is over. The risk of a global nuclear war has practically disappeared.
‘Meeting Gorbachev’ Review: Sitting Down With the Last Soviet Leader, The New York Times, 2 May 2019. Scholarship & press Archived copy
“Americans thought they’d won the Cold War, and this went to their heads,” he says. “What victory? It was our joint victory. We all won.”
Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, January 28, 1992, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara, 28 Jan 1992. Primary record
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the cold war.

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