To: Moonman62
and can't survive on any large scale by itself.Exactly my point.
But the Soviet Union was propped up by leftists in the West.
Clearly that helped to sustain it, and one of the reasons why the USSR managed to last as long as it did. It took Reagan and the classification of the USSR as the Evil Empire to spur reforms in the Eastern Bloc--leading to people like Gorbachev. This in turn accelerated the death of the Soviet Union and brought the Cold War to an end with the US as the lone victor.
29 posted on
03/05/2006 8:44:52 PM PST by
rzeznikj at stout
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To: rzeznikj at stout
No mention of Reagan's military buildup? Strategic Defense Initiative, a huge Navy, Peacekeeper missiles, and the resurgence of the American economy. It was a very uncomfortable time to be a Soviet.
30 posted on
03/05/2006 9:16:10 PM PST by
Moonman62
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