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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Selectric II who wrote (14296)6/5/2004 11:23:07 PM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
The Soviet Union was destined for failure because it used an inherently flawed economic model. Conditions in the Soviet Union were terrible for decades, but the spectre of the 'evil American empire', along with the secret police, gulags, and murder, kept the people in line. When the Soviet people finally got a glimpse of how it really was in the West, they pushed the wall down themselves.

Reagan delayed this fall with his sword rattling. The Soviet hard liners had a convenient danger in Reagan's threats to hold over the Soviet people. Gorbachev was the real reason that the USSR fell.

Reagan's legacy is that he was...glib.
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