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   From: anton.usenet@gmail.com   
      
   James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   > James A. Donald:   
   >>> My guess is that Gorbachev's decision to allow people to   
   >>> doubt and criticize had a lot to do with the fall of   
   >>> communism in Russia, but military defeat had a lot to do   
   >>> with the satellite countries dumping communism.   
   >   
   > Anton   
   >> Communism did not suffer a military defeat   
   >   
   > In Nicaragua and Afghanistan it did.   
      
   Not in Europe, not in the Soviet Union. The citizens in the communist   
   countries brought their own communist regimes down.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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