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To: GST who wrote (142265)	5/10/2002 4:24:05 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

But I do credit his team for pushing the Soviet Union into bankruptcy -- and I think that made the world a far safer place. Problem is, now that the old communist archives have been opened we can go back and see when the USSR went bankrupt. It turns out that in the late 1970s the Central Committee was duly informed that the economy could no longer sustain the cold war and was instructed to start the process of disengagement. Gorbachev visited Thatcher in December 1984, before becoming Secretary General and started the rapprochement ("this is a man the West can do business with", remember?). In 1985 he was selected by the Central Committee as Secretary General and given a mandate to disengage. In other words, while the increased defense budget of Reagan played a role in the last "battle" of the cold war, its importance is widely overstated. Of course the GOP has no intention of clarifying this, and the Dems cannot question it, as it would seem unpatriotic. Let old dogs lie, as the proverb goes...