From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 01:53:05 BST
Hi Horse,
Thanks for input. It's always great to hear from you.
You're right of course, people who attribute the fall of "The Evil
Empire" to Ronald Reagan are the same who think the US won WWII in
Europe, singlehandedly. As if the outcome would have been the same
if the Russians weren't fighting Hitler on the Eastern Front. Don't
have the numbers at hand, but something like 20 million Russians lost
their lives in that war? I'm sure someone will correct be if I'm
wrong.
In fact, it might be argued that Reagan and his successors were
disappointed to see it go, since this meant they needed to invent new
evils to keep the military industrial complex rolling. And we all
know what the new evil is, right?
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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On 7 Jun 2004 at 0:46, Horse wrote:
Hi Folks
Hope you don't mind me butting in here but there seems to be a couple
of names missing from this conversation which you might like to
consider.
Lech Walesa
Mikhail Gorbachev
Without these two there would have been no dismantling of the Soviet
bloc and probably no end to the cold war for many years - if at all.
Reagan played his part but he would have gotten nowhere without the
efforts of the aforementioned.
Such a shame that Gorbachev was replaced by the drunken buffoon
Yeltsin.
Horse
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