[instantgratification]

They are saying exactly what I posted. Your original post stated Reagan "brought down communism" by supporting jihadists in Afghanistan. My point was no, that is not what brought down communism. What these individuals are saying, if you actually read them carefully, is that Reagan was anticommunist. That he believed East Europeans deserved freedom. That is different from actually creating the conditions which caused the demise of the Soviet bloc. But yeah, I'd agree, John Paul II gets most of the credit for that.

[Tailgunner Joe]

"Reagan bolstered the U.S. military might to ruin the Soviet economy, and he achieved his goal," said Gennady Gerasimov, who was the top spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry during the 1980s. - LINK