Ping!
God chose His earthly instruments well. But, then, of COURSE He would.
Cardinals Wuerl, Dolan, DiNardo, and O’Malley, and Archbishops Chaput, Cupich, and Gomez sell the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ to politicians in exchange for government money.
ronald reagan conquered communism.
The ultimate fall of Soviet communism was in no way attributable to a single person, or even to an insular group of people.
The unsustainability of their economic model played perhaps the biggest role.
Of the many individuals who opposed them, I will assert that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered the closes to a mortal blow. His writings detailed in high definition how the brutal system of bureaucrats and quota driven arrests, murders, and tortures were necessary to hold such a government model together. This intellectual tour de force shattered the remaining hope the Soviet people had that things would improve if the western powers were to fall. They would not have.
Thatcher, Reagan, Paul, Walesa... a lot of people played roles.
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If he “conquered it,” why is it in power over us now?
He and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher!
He was unafraid to call out the Soviet Union and its Communist Party as “The Enemy” to be defeated. He didn’t mealy mouth or lead from the rear. Praise to him for his courage and leadership.