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To: Dayuhan who wrote (54011)	7/13/2004 8:29:04 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793578

Of course, being communists, they could not see past their paranoia and reflexive responses I suppose one could argue that a certain level of paranoia is in every government. We could open a large discussion on that topic. And you are right as far as the Russians are concerned. Extraordinary levels of Paranoia have been well documented in the Russian Bear. Mother Russia was definitely extremely paranoid about borders, military, religion, and any other control mechanism. That intense level of paranoia, however, was not usually shared by other communist nations.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (54011)	7/14/2004 12:56:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793578

All they had to do was to maintain a credible deterrent and keep chewing away at us in the developing world, where American shortsightedness had ceded them the upper hand So, do you think that 'same old, same old' from the USSR would have remained credible in the face of the additional Reagan buildup? They couldn't afford to do more. Of course they would rather claim that they were brought down by outside interference They were brought down by their attempt to reform the unreformable. However, if they had just hunkered down and not attempted glasnost and perestroika, the Soviet Union might still exist today. In that sense, anything that gave them the push could be construed as bringing them down.