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To: Dayuhan who wrote (54221)	7/14/2004 3:44:18 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793575

I don’t see how any of this challenges my contention that the Soviet Union fell less because of our actions than because of the institutional inadequacy of its own government. Because if you read the commentary of various Soviet citizens of the time, they all seem to say the same thing. Reagan's forceful moral language and the obvious economic and technological superiority displayed by the US arms buildup shook the scales from their eyes. Reagan didn't allow them to wallow in their own self-delusion. The spade realized it was a spade. Derek

To: Dayuhan who wrote (54221)	7/14/2004 8:13:59 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793575

I don’t see how any of this challenges my contention that the Soviet Union fell less because of our actions than because of the institutional inadequacy of its own government. Steven, Sure, I agree. The Soviet Union would have collapsed. Every human empire has eventually collapsed. I think you will agree that absent America, it would likely have taken a long long time. And during that long long time the naked oppression of hundreds of millions of fine folks would have continued unabated. uw