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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 344557" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>"Reagon Style".....Satellite?</p><p> </p><p>Now a reality check :</p><p></p><p>The REAL credit for the fall of the USSR goes to Gorbachev, who gave up on the Communist pipe dream and brought it about. If Gorby wanted the wall up it would have remained up. Reagan really had little or nothing to say about it. The photo op in Berlin where he made his famous speech telling Mr. Gorbachev to take down the wall happened because Ronny learned from the CIA that the Soviet block was falling apart and that East Germany was probably going to be among the first of the Soviet satellite states to go. So to make himself look good and to look powerful he staged the wall speech. People fell for it hook line and sinker. Reagan was an opportunist. He was just a politician doing what was in his best interest. No better or worse then the average politician. </p><p> There are a lot of events and incidents that led up to it. The West felt threatened by the continued expansionist policy of the Soviet Union, and the traditional Russian fear of incursion from the West. However It seems to me as though the first issue we need to address is that there is no single event that set off the war. Historians and political analysts are still debating whose fault is actually was, US or Russia. But obviously both contributed to the beginning and end of The Cold War. </p><p>Reagan was an ok president for the United States. He certainly was not perfect. He solved some problems while created others (most notably, it is the Reagan era when the huge government deficit problem started). Still, overall I think he was good( not great) for America and in any case it is very difficult to judge him, as he had been the president in the time of big changes in the economic and financial system (2 digits inflation, floating currency rates, etc.). As to the Evil Empire comment, first of all, it is not well known in Russia, and second if you ask me the comment is plain stupid (by stupid I mean that it is so ignorant that is not even offensive).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 344557, member: 9859"] "Reagon Style".....Satellite? Now a reality check : The REAL credit for the fall of the USSR goes to Gorbachev, who gave up on the Communist pipe dream and brought it about. If Gorby wanted the wall up it would have remained up. Reagan really had little or nothing to say about it. The photo op in Berlin where he made his famous speech telling Mr. Gorbachev to take down the wall happened because Ronny learned from the CIA that the Soviet block was falling apart and that East Germany was probably going to be among the first of the Soviet satellite states to go. So to make himself look good and to look powerful he staged the wall speech. People fell for it hook line and sinker. Reagan was an opportunist. He was just a politician doing what was in his best interest. No better or worse then the average politician. There are a lot of events and incidents that led up to it. The West felt threatened by the continued expansionist policy of the Soviet Union, and the traditional Russian fear of incursion from the West. However It seems to me as though the first issue we need to address is that there is no single event that set off the war. Historians and political analysts are still debating whose fault is actually was, US or Russia. But obviously both contributed to the beginning and end of The Cold War. Reagan was an ok president for the United States. He certainly was not perfect. He solved some problems while created others (most notably, it is the Reagan era when the huge government deficit problem started). Still, overall I think he was good( not great) for America and in any case it is very difficult to judge him, as he had been the president in the time of big changes in the economic and financial system (2 digits inflation, floating currency rates, etc.). As to the Evil Empire comment, first of all, it is not well known in Russia, and second if you ask me the comment is plain stupid (by stupid I mean that it is so ignorant that is not even offensive). [/QUOTE]
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