How Reagan Doctrine brought down the Evil Empire
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By the 1980s, Soviet communism was no longer a nuclear fortress but a Potemkin village. All that was lacking was the right statesman with the right strategy. Enter President Ronald Reagan.
Reagan took his freedom offensive into the heart of the disintegrating Soviet empire.
Along with the celebrations, certain questions inevitably come to mind. Why did a system that appeared to be so militarily and economically strong implode so quickly? Was it inevitable? Or was it the result of the policy of containment that the United States and its allies had faithfully followed for decades at a cost of thousands of lives and many billions of dollars?
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