From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "Anton"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:g8m0ls$lbr$1@registered.motzarella.org...   
   > James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   >> Anton:   
   >>> I suspect it was the new "thaw" introduced by Mikhail   
   >>> Gorbachev which ended up in people gathering enough   
   >>> courage to resist the authorities. If communism fell   
   >>> because of proxy wars outside europe, where is the   
   >>> evidence?   
   >   
   >> The timing is suggestive - the satellites started   
   >> getting frisky immediately following soviet defeat.   
   >   
   > The Soviet Union was defeted by the people in the USSR and its   
   > satellites. The people in those countries deserve the credit of the fall   
   > of communism. They did it themselves: in East Berlin, Prague, Tallinn,   
   > Vilnius, Riga, Moscow etc. Taking the credit to yourself for what THEY   
   > did would be incredibly arrogant, unfair and insulting towards them.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Anton   
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