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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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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there had been such challenges by the enslaved peoples to the USSR before and they were met by tanks- (think '68)
The pope may have started the fire, but Reagan scared the Soviets from putting it out, plus he made clear they couldn't keep up either--
