My post had a small error; my late mom was in the labor camp from 15-19. Prior to this, at 11 (1937) the flip side of the totalitarian coin took away her dad in the Ukraine. This was during Stalin's Great Terror. He perished in the Gulag.
So America wiped out the Axis powers in WWII, and Ronald Reagan gave a mortal blow to the Soviets - I say mortal, since the job is not finished yet. There needs to be a regime change there also, since the same old nomenclatura is still ruling there, e.g., Putin, a former KGB colonel.
I agree will Bill Gertz in viewing Russia and China as dangerous enemies.