Total agreement. Reagan's five-pillar strategy at work (outlined by Dr. Constantine Menges, Peter Schweitzer in their respective works). This part of the collapse was certainly real...especially in Poland. We worked hard to engineer it.
Golytsin's "theory" ignores actual historic events and tries to paint it as one big conspiracy to fool people - to include Reagan, Thatcher, and others.
I don't think we are talking about quite the same theory. Anyways, all but the Pope were already retired when the collapse came. They had, however, effectively delivered the "shove" that pushed the Soviets over the cliff. Indeed, we conservatives had won.
But the problem is...just how effective was GHWB at making sure the bastards didn't get back up off the mat? And then of course Xlinton came in and he couldn't have cared less. It would have gotten in the way of his policy of slicing and dicing the American military to have one big party, "the Peace Dividend".
So, with the return of thinly-veiled tyranny...There are good reasons for doubt. Vladimir Bukovsky paints a darker picture. The failure to ever "clean house" and put a much larger number of the CCCP henchmen... who in fact were guilty of great crimes...on trial is disturbing.
These communists would LOVE to believe as you Golytsinites do - that it is all a fake and they'll be back, fortunately, history and current events have proven them wrong.
How do "current" events prove them wrong? Hell, it proves them too damn close to being right.
"But the problem is...just how effective was GHWB at making sure the bastards didn't get back up off the mat? And then of course Xlinton came in and he couldn't have cared less. It would have gotten in the way of his policy of slicing and dicing the American military to have one big party, "the Peace Dividend". "
AMEN. And it was very frustrating to watch and not be able to do anything about it.