Blah, blah. blah
You're old enough to have lived in 70s. Do you really remember SU collapsing then? Guess what, neither do I. May be I was under 10, but I _lived_ there.
Anyone who hates Soviet Union (and that really should include every sane person on Earth) has to respect the man who killed the Beast dead. He was the one who had the guts to call a spade a spade, and then proceed to break it for good. People around him were oh so sure that Soviet System is immortal, is the "radiant future of the whole humanity" or at least a permanent factor in the world. He saw it a vulnerable then, just as clearly as you seet its vulnerability now.
Thank you, President Reagan.
