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It's a direct cause of the former.
More like cracks in one socialist country resulted in shockwaves though all other socialist countries, and not all managed to weather them.
No, the petrodollar scheme years caused the entire Eastern bloc to suffer,
otherwise the USSR would have been able to keep the economies of Eastern Europe afloat and later thriving.
The USSR had and has the fossil fuels to do it (and is recovering right now).
Yugoslavia did and does not.