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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   
   >   
   > James A. Donald:   
   >>> In Nicaragua and Afghanistan it did.   
   >   
   > Anton   
   >> Not in Europe, not in the Soviet Union.   
      
   > The Hungarians tried on stuff that had previously led to   
   > war. They took risk of war.  When war did not eventuate,   
   > everyone joined in.   
      
   Tell us something we don't know. You are trying to get off the hook by   
   changing the subject. Or what is the connection between Hungary 1956,   
   post-WWII Eastern Europe and Nicaragua?   
      
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   Anton   
      
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