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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (222470)3/7/2005 10:01:46 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1574855
 
"Revisionist history."

Nonsense. If you want to read history through blinders, so be it.

You cannot claim that Reagan caused the Soviet Union to collapse because he made a speech calling for the Berlin Wall to be torn down. By the time Reagan was elected, the standard of living in Poland and East Germany was already higher than it was in Moscow. When a colonial power, which is what the USSR was, starts subsidizing the colonies to the point that their economic well being is damaged, the writing is on the wall. If you want to believe that the USSR cratered because they got labeled as the Evil Empire, well, that is nice. Not reality-based at all, but the Bush Administration is pretty contemptuous about those who are reality-based, so you fit right in...
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