Soviet Union was widely infecting politics in europen countries, when Reagan began as President. The leftwing in Europe was not only receiving money and education provided by the Soviet Union, they also had a waste intelligence network in european countries reporting back to Moscow. The debate in european countries were more and more in sympathy with the Soviet Union, and I´m sure that if the US had choosen the policy of isolationism, then the world map would be VERY different today. You can still find communist politicians in europe, but they are getting older or are converting to other more moderate socialist views.
Ronald Reagan made the power of balance not only military, but also in politics - in a time when he could just as well have sit on his ass in the whitehouse and build an army in the US, then he choose to confront communist thoughts in europe, which made europeans get their things together - ex. by speeding up the creation of the EU.
Sure Ronald Reagan was not the only force behind the fall of the Soviet Union, but Ronald Reagan made sure that there were a strong/powerful alternativ to communists, and when he left the whitehouse, then the domino events had already been started, which ultimate lead to the fall of the Soviet Union.
In 100 years I´m sure Ronald Reagan will be mention in historybooks - I´m not so sure about Joe Sixpack
Last edited by Rolo at Jun 6 2004, 03:41 AM