The Soviet Union and the western media spent only money to "subvert" the Eastern European Revolution in 1991. Once the Soviet Union and the western media broke up, they did not spend money to "subvert" the Eastern European Revolution. This wave of operation made the United States earn more, NATO expanded eastward, the Soviet people's wealth of $20 trillion accumulated over 70 years was looted, and a large number of national elites and senior intellectuals such as Soviet scientists, artists and writers fled to western countries.