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Old 09-07-2014, 03:10 PM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:12 PM
 
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They really should be putting up statues of Gorbachev.
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Unperson Everyman Land
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They really should be putting up statues of Gorbachev.

Why?
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:20 PM
 
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Why?
Because Reagan had nothing to do with the fall of the USSR.
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Stasis
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More myth making. The statues were all commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation to commemorate the year of his birth.
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:35 PM
 
Location: Florida
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More myth making. The statues were all commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation to commemorate the year of his birth.
Lol--I think there is one on the border as well, to thank him for granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:38 PM
 
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3 year old news.
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Huh? This article is over 3 years old. Isn't there an expiration date for these things?
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Old 09-09-2014, 10:35 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Huh? This article is over 3 years old. Isn't there an expiration date for these things?
Myths go on and on, it's truth that has difficulty surviving
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Old 09-09-2014, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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Huh? This article is over 3 years old. Isn't there an expiration date for these things?
No not as long as some liberals continue to be a denial about Reagan's role in ending the Cold War.

From a thread devoted to the topic of Reagan and the ending of the Cold War.

//www.city-data.com/forum/35930529-post122.html

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The lefty meme that Reagan had nothing to do with the collapse was abandoned by even most lefty historians after the release of Soviet archives showing that former Soviet officials were deeply concerned about SDI and their ability to keep up with US technology.

Here is a quote from Sean Wilentz, left-leaning Princeton historian and longtime friend of Bill and Hillary:

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"His [Reagan's]success in helping finally to end the cold war is one of the greatest achievements by any president of the United States--and arguably the greatest single presidential achievement since 1945."

from The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (p. 281).
Entire thread can be viewed here if anyone is interested. It was from only about a 6 weeks ago.
//www.city-data.com/forum/polit...iet-union.html
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