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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think the debate we had before was whether or not Reagan's policies caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even if you get your special National Review merit badge for your position on that one, you can't possibly think that conservatives saw it coming. Everybody missed it until it happened.
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I had a history professor who took the view that it was inevitable, and would likely happen in our lifetimes, as the countries of Eastern Europe would not stand being repressed for more than a couple of generations and that, once they started to break loose, the shit would hit the fan. (That's not quite the way he put it.) This was in 1983 or 1984.
Pity, for him, that he didn't establish a line on this in Vegas. He'd be living on his private island now.
