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Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
Reagan was the massive straw that broke the camels back, at a time when all quarters of leftism were advising we play nice, Reagan didn't...He pushed them off the cliff.
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That's the mythology, Mul-berry. It's comfortable, I'm sure, to believe this sort of fairey tale, but that's all it is.
The Soviet Union was well on it's way to economic collapse years before Reagan was elected. All he had to do was stand back and watch. That there was a huge military guild up during the Reagan years was counter-productive and if the progress of the internal rot had not been as deep as it was, the US buildup would have slowed the USSR's collapse like it did in the '50's and agqin in the '60's.
We can talk about both Republican and Democrat administrations who actively saved the USSR during the 20's and 30's if you like, it's an old story.