The Cold War was ended in December of 1989 (
Malta Summit). You Americans, just don't learn the World's history and that's your problem. I bet that 99% of your population belives that Hitler was defeated by the USA and the US flag was hoisted over the Reichstag in 1945. The same 99% of Americans really believe they have won the Space Race
Now let me give you a small historical lesson. The Soviet Union has collapsed from the inside and there were two reasons for that:
1) The Russian people got tired of commies and have voted against of the leading role of Communist Party in Soviet Union. So this declaration was removed from the Constitution in March of 1990. Note, it was a very democratic act - the commies have returned the power to the people, they officially stopped to rule the country since that time. If I was a president, I would forbid the commies at all (I just hated their regime).
2) Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk dissolved the Soviet Union in December of 1991 (
Belavezha Accords) and all Soviet republics, including Russia of course, have got their independence. Personally I believe that was a super cool event!
I don't understand who has "won" the Cold War, when and how exactly??? The Soviet Army has been renamed to the Russian Army, all weapons, technologies etc have not dissolved or gone anywhere, they all still here (furthermore, our Army modernizes... e.g. "Satan-2" ICBM was announced). We are still a super power and
our Amy is not inferior in strength to NATO or any other military organization on planet Earth.
So what has changed? The commie ideology has gone and Russia does not need to feed all those post Soviet republics anymore? I don't see anything bad in these changed.