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Originally posted by sgtclub
The Pope played a part, as did Thatcher, Walesa, and a host of others, but Reagan was captain of the ship.
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When I read stuff like this, I think the Pope made much more difference than the marginal increases in defense expenditures over which Reagan presided. Which is to say that Communism failed because its subjects started to believe it could and would fail, not because we had more and better tanks.
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