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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Selectric II who wrote (480615)10/23/2003 5:22:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
"No. Soviet-American relations were in terrible shape in 1979 before Reagan took office."

>>> Of COURSE they were, that's exactly what I said!

>>> Why did the Soviet system crumble (aside from the inevitable economic failures of Communism):

>>> The Pressure of a decades long Cold War (economic pressure + military pressure)

>>> The relative economic out-performance of the Western free market systems (the highly visible economic performance in the West... leading to desires by the general Soviet citizenry to improve their lives as well).

>>> Fascile attempts to 'assign all the credit' for the failure of the Communist system to Reagan... is like giving all the credit for the win to a pitcher who comes in during the last inning. It ignores all the important work that preceded.

>>> The Soviet economy had shrunk to a tiny fraction the size of ours by the 'eighties.
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