Who ended the cold war?

Grand Kremlin Palace. Moscow. 6/1/88



Gorbachev did.

Lew Rockwell comments:

I still remember the horrified faces of George H.W. Bush and his consigliere, James Baker, when the Berlin Wall came down. There followed a few bad years for the US superstate, with no foreign bogeyman to scare the American people into continued subservience.