IKE's Farewell Address

[Picaro]

Gorby wanted to end the USSR.

No, he didn't. Gorbatjov was a Socialist through and through and he disliked what Stalinism had done to the people of the USSR and how the government was unwilling to relinquish the power and paranoia that Stalin had introduced. Gorbatjov wanted to retain the USSR through reforms and wishes of the people. He wanted to do what Alexander Dubček tried to do in Czechoslovakia in 1968. However, the rush to break free from decades of Stalinism was too much for the population to invest in reforms. They wanted out immediately. So rather than crush the populace as had been done so many times before, Gorbatjov gave in to the people's demands and set them free.

lol the correct term is Collapsed, not ' a rush to break free n stuff'. It collapsed in 1973, not under Gorbie, but under Brezhnev, and from there on was almost completely reliant on western charity for survival, from food and medicine to refined petroleum imports.

 

[GLASNOST]

You're obviously an idiot. the Soviets were toast; British aid arrived in time to save Moscow, and the Soviets were on life support by the West from then on, for everything from av gas to boots. The Allied bombing campaigns handed you near total air superiority, you could even run missions with old WW I biplanes at night. In hindsight, some of the right wing cranks are correct in one respect, we should have let Hitler finish you off; we could easily have done without you.

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Yes, you can't rebut the facts of the matter, not when there are those recordings of your own WW II Generals establishing them as well as the historical record.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Coard: “Operation Wetback”: America's Worst Mass Deportation

So, Trump is like IKE