"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
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D. Spencer Hines wrote:
Dead Wrong...
On all counts.
M. S. Gorbachev was by no means particularly important.
Oh yes he was. Far more important than Yeltsin who only served to muck up
the Russian economy.
Reagan, Thatcher and the Pope -- a smart Pole -- were.
They were all important. The combination of the lot of them brought about
the end of the cold war.
Read Some History...
I was around at the time reading newspapers, watching the news and
analytical documentaries. It was a fascinating time. It wasn't going fast
enough for Yeltsin but Gorbachev was cleverly pacing it. Had Yeltsin not
interfered, the groundwork might have been in place to prevent the
Mafia-style economy Russia now has.
Hilarious!
Just more Concrete Evidence of Renia's naïveté about The Cold War.
I know people at Yale who are working with Russians -- Historians, KGB,
Politburo types to find out exactly what happened. I've read some of their
articles and books.
History unravels slowly.
Just reading CONTEMPORARY newspapers, watching the news and analytical
documentaries of the time and on television doesn't mean one understands the
dynamics of what happened -- particularly when viewed through the default
European Leftist filter Renia is so fond of -- and is a prisoner of.
Not _The Grauniad_ or _Time_.
I don't read The Guardian or Time Magazine.
Makes no difference. The views of those publications have become the
conventional wisdom of the naïve, such as Renia, when it comes to
understanding The Cold War.
She need not actually have read either publication itself.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas