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   From: anton.usenet@gmail.com   
      
   James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
      
   > In the seventies to around 1982, the perception was that the tide of   
   > history was running Russias way, that for better or worse, communism   
   > would dominate, that Reagan's adventures in Central America and   
   > Afghanistan were futile, stupid, and inexorably doomed.  Had that   
   > perception still been strong, doubt in the worth of communism would   
   > not have so swiftly led to collapse in the political power of   
   > communism.   
      
   Communism did not die because of some Latin American or Central Asian   
   proxy war, but because it does not work as a socio-economic model, and   
   the _residents themselves_ in already socialist (european) countries   
   said "we've had enough!" to their leaders.   
      
   --   
   Anton   
      
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