By 1989, they had little soft power left. The Berlin Wall did not collapse under a barrage of NATO artillery, but under the impact of hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had changed their minds about Soviet ideology.
但1956年入侵匈牙利和1968年入侵捷克斯洛伐克将苏联的这些软实力挥霍殆尽。到1989年，苏联已没有多少软实力了。柏林墙不是被北约的密集炮火轰塌的，而是改变了对苏联意识形态看法的人民用锤子和推土机推倒的。