Ronald who?

Tom Brosz — 6/2/2004 12:26:29 AM (archived)

I've commented in the past on the determined effort to erase Ronald Reagan from the history of the fall of the Iron Curtain. Sometimes it's pretty obvious:

I believe that history will judge George Bush 41, Mikhail Gorbachev, Brent Scowcroft, James Baker, Helmut Kohl, Margaret Thatcher and FranÃ§ois Mitterrand very kindly for the way they collectively took the Soviet Empire, which was tilted in the wrong direction for so long, and tilted it in the right direction, with barely a shot fired. That was one of the great achievements of the 20th century.

Hey, Ronnie. Some of us remember.

Thanks to the WSJ for this one.

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Ronald who? - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2004 12:26:29 AM
- Posthumous hindsight - Fox - 6/7/2004 10:41:49 PM
  - On the other hand... - Tom Brosz - 6/8/2004 4:45:28 AM
  - re: Posthumous hindsight - Tom Brosz - 6/8/2004 4:27:39 AM
    - It helps if you actually read newspapers - Tony - 6/8/2004 1:45:24 PM
- Yet another remarkable HZ thread...starts good, becomes great...thanks guys (n/t) - McFly - 6/3/2004 6:44:28 PM
- "The Press Slept While Reagan Rambled" -- FAIR - S - 6/2/2004 7:52:47 PM
- Alot of us remember - RobVG - 6/2/2004 3:47:18 PM
  - History rewrites - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2004 6:51:21 PM
- re: Republican "non-persons," continued. - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2004 5:47:04 AM
  - re: Republican "non-persons," continued. - SDG - 6/2/2004 6:07:01 AM
    - Good catch? - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2004 6:14:40 AM
- Both ways? - Bowser - 6/2/2004 4:25:09 AM
  - re: Both ways? - Art Martin - 6/2/2004 4:05:42 PM
  - re: Both ways - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2004 5:16:30 AM
    - The Soviets copied the Soyuz and Progress from the US? - Bowser - 6/2/2004 5:48:53 AM
      - re: The Soviets copied the Soyuz and Progress from the US? - SDG - 6/2/2004 6:23:54 AM
        
        re: Defeating the Nazis alone - S - 6/2/2004 6:31:22 PM
        
        No way. Without Lend Lease, the Soviets wouldn't have lasted past early 1943. - Lee - 6/2/2004 11:19:37 PM
        
        Nazis lost at Moscow before Lend Lease began - S - 6/3/2004 5:53:45 PM
        
        One other factor... - Larry J - 6/3/2004 6:21:21 PM
        
        re: and another - SDG - 6/3/2004 6:43:29 PM
        
        Absolutely - Larry J - 6/4/2004 5:38:29 PM
        
        A lesson for all politicians. - Lee - 6/4/2004 10:16:22 PM
        
        PS - SDG - 6/5/2004 5:43:41 AM
        
        "And now Europe is paying for his stupidity" - SDG - 6/5/2004 4:50:17 AM
        
        Just my opinion - Lee - 6/5/2004 6:46:00 AM
        
        You are insane. (n/t) - SDG - 6/5/2004 5:24:15 PM
        
        Seconded - Tony - 6/6/2004 12:31:31 AM
        
        Not Hitler, but Germany. - Lee - 6/6/2004 2:55:49 AM
        
        Hitler wasn't just a man........... - Publius - 6/9/2004 2:44:24 AM
        
        Nazi Germany and Hitler are inseperable - SDG - 6/7/2004 7:48:53 PM
        
        Kind of like slavery and America? - Lee - 6/8/2004 2:15:56 AM
        
        your reply - SDG - 6/9/2004 3:10:09 PM
        
        yes exactly like slavery and America? - SDG - 6/8/2004 4:23:52 PM
        
        "His true crime was taking the spirit and heart of Europe and extinguishing it, ....." - Tony - 6/8/2004 1:53:32 PM
        
        You actually understate the case when you say... - Larry J - 6/9/2004 1:47:44 PM
        
        Some corrections - Lee - 6/9/2004 10:41:31 PM
        
        Invading France? - Lee - 6/8/2004 8:18:42 PM
        
        Damn youre funny - Tony - 6/9/2004 1:26:03 AM
        
        Typical liberal symbolism over substance is probably the main reason. - Lee - 6/9/2004 3:35:46 AM
        
        Something I just noticed about that picture. - Lee - 6/10/2004 7:34:12 AM
        
        SEE ME ON FLAME BOARD (n/t) - Daniel L - 6/9/2004 4:23:04 PM
        
        I wonder whether the 'liberal' ingestion of a (probably illegal) 'substance' is at the root of your love of Nazi 'symbolism' (n/t) - Daniel L - 6/9/2004 3:42:31 PM
        
        Congratulations! You guys have actually managed to squeeze a thread so far to the side of the screen that each word has its own line! Now I can really piss people off with this bloated and unnecessar… - Tom Brosz - 6/9/2004 4:56:21 PM
        
        This post has two purposes... - McFly - 6/10/2004 4:43:14 PM
        
        Thanks McFly - Daniel L - 6/10/2004 7:17:57 PM
        
        re: Not Hitler, but Germany. - Tom Brosz - 6/6/2004 5:53:26 AM
        
        Missing Link --Barbarossa 1941 -Glantz - S - 6/3/2004 5:57:48 PM
        
        Perspective, again. (And the P-39 was a POS, but beautiful.) - Bowser - 6/3/2004 4:00:18 AM
        
        No it had Russians in it. - Lee - 6/3/2004 4:53:18 AM
        
        The scourge of the Red Hordes. - Lee - 6/3/2004 6:02:39 AM
        
        You didn't bother to read the post, did you? - Bowser - 6/3/2004 5:40:31 AM
        
        Nor did you. - Lee - 6/3/2004 6:05:34 AM
        
        An excellent summary of the land war - Larry J - 6/2/2004 7:56:46 PM
        
        Good points - S - 6/3/2004 7:01:57 PM
        
        Uh...we had the A-Bomb a year after D-Day. - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2004 1:27:40 AM
        
        It takes more than that - Larry J - 6/3/2004 3:05:57 AM
        
        And the type XXI U-boats were coming online at war's end. - Lee - 6/3/2004 5:12:44 AM
        
        re: And the type XXI U-boats were coming online at war's end. - SDG - 6/3/2004 6:27:02 PM
        
        We would have come up with counters to the new threat - alcaray - 6/3/2004 4:23:33 PM
        
        Come to think of it, Bremerton is a naval shipyard. (n/t) - RobVG - 6/3/2004 3:25:56 PM
        
        That's a little weird - RobVG - 6/3/2004 3:20:42 PM

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