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ramapo

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:33 PM
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17. Thank you.

Without Gorby, Reagan would've gotten nowhere. Economics played a role but Gorbechev's Glasnost policy is what opened the Iron Curtain.

I'd go so far to say that Gorbechev had more courage and vision than any leader in the second half of the 20th century. It's a shame that Reagan gets as much credit as he does.

There's some truth that we spent the USSR into ruin. It's ironic that we now seem to be doing the same thing to ourselves.

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