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   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Anton  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Events rarely have only a single cause. The Soviet Union wouldn't have   
   fallen without the actions of such people. But there are presumably   
   reasons why those people acted that way when they did, and the   
   equivalent people didn't bring down the Soviet union a decade, or two   
   decades, or three decades earlier. Whether James is correct about what   
   those reasons were I don't know.   
      
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