Actually I would say that it was a combination of both, the strains of a large budget, pressure from within, and a stunning blow from their defeat in Afghanistan...kinda sounds like history repeating itself...taking it's cue from the dying days of Czarist Russia...and much like with the Bolshivek revolution, it started with freedom loving people and is headed back to tyrants.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Really? sources please? Or is right wing propaganda enough evidence. > > From my understanding (data to follow) the USSR was already in trouble > before Ronny Raygun took power. > > Also are you saying that Raygun waved his magic wand and poof that > evil commynism disappeared? That the brave people of Romania, Poland, > East Germany etc did nothing? > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Interesting myth that. Too bad the rest of the world doesn't believe > >> it. The Germans, the Bulgarians, Poles etc know that it was their own > >> people who forced the communist regimes out, with no real help from > >> Ronnie Raygun, just some empty rhetoric. > > > > Nice re-writing of history there. Reagan bankrupted the USSR through > > the arms race. That was the entire strategy - force them to spend so > > much that they bankrupted themselves and destroyed not just their > > government but the entire Soviet system, worldwide > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328531 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
