How sad that Pres. Reagan is honored more in these countries than he is in the USA. Some day he really must be added to Mt. Rushmore for defeating the USSR without loss of life. Absolutely brilliant.
I agree, especially when you consider what the alternative could have been.
If not Rushmore, a mountain of his own.
“How sad that Pres. Reagan is honored more in these countries than he is in the USA.”
I remember travelling in a train with some British friends through (then) Czechoslovakia shortly after the fall of communism. The train was crowded and as a joke we decided in order to frighten people away from our compartment we’d stick up a picture of Margaret Thatcher on the window.
The picture came from a copy of the international edition of the British Guardian newspaper we had purchased at a station earlier. The Guardian is a strongly left wing paper which hated (hates still) Thatcher and the picture was not a particularly flattering one of her.
“This will scare off all those Johnny Foreigners” we joked in mock plummy English accents.
Imagine our surprise when we were driven demented by people knocking on our compartment door, leaning in, grinning broadly and giving the thumbs up.
In our parochial view, brought up by the liberal intelligentsia of the BBC in the UK where Thatcher was despised, we were totally unaware that people who had lived under communist tyranny regarded Mrs Thatcher as a great lady, a heroine and someone who they admired enormously.
It was a telling reminder about the prophet and his regard in his home town.