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It's a direct cause of the former.
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.