possibly even further back to when CNN owner Ted Turner made a 24 part series “the Cold War”. It seemed like comparisons were made such as “they (Soviets) had the Gulag, and we (USA) had Kent State. This series is probably still available to view today.
‘CNN owner Ted Turner made a 24 part series “the Cold War”.
Well after the fall of the Soviet Union, a liberal relative mentioned in passing that “he wasn’t concerned about faulty ideologies as they collapse on their own.” I was flabbergasted. I was silent, but hardly convinced. I should have replied:
“There was no need for WWII as Hitler just up and committed suicide. Yeah, these ideologies just collapse on their own.”
The truth of the matter is that Ronald Reagan pushed, and the Soviet Union fell.