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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (363768)12/20/2007 10:55:21 AM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 1573096
 
The people of former Soviet Union didn't need Reagan to end communism. Both Reagan and Carter presided over the gradual fall and helped it along, but it was the people over there and the heroic Gorbys and Valesa type leaders who risked their life who deserve credit.

Other groups that helped bring down the Soviets were the Osama Bin laden types in Afghanistan, the Jews and Catholic church, the West Germans offering to basically buy East Germany back, the anti-nuclear movement, the western capitalists like Armand Hammer and yes even Marc Rich who showed the hidden wealth of Russia, the hippies and rock n' roll "(Living in the USSR"), and the military's knowledge that they really didn't have an arsenal that could compete with the USA's, that a lot of it was a big hoax, that half their so-called military might was outdated machinery rusting away without spare parts.
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