[iranger]

"Yes, and the pope forcefully condemned commnism since his earliest years"

So you'll agree our struggle against the evil of communism has not been bloodless? In fact if we factor in the gulags, Pol Pot, Uncle Fidel, and all the others, the price in blood was high. Perhaps Patton was right, we should have turned right at Berlin and marched straight to Moscow. It would have been cheaper in terms of blood in the long run.

[Notwithstanding]

Apparently it is difficult for you to admit that there was no invasion of the USSR by the USA or any other Western nation - and yet that evil empire disintegrated.