Go back and take a look at history, Telamon. Eastern Europeans have a history of
standing up to the Russians. Budapest in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 come to
mind and it was a shame that the USA decided to abandon those countries and do
nothing. The Solidarity revolution was a Polish revolution which had NOTHING AT
ALL to do with Reagan or the USA. Brenda Ann quite rightly pointed out that the
Poles and the East Germans stood up to the Russians of their own accord. Poland,
out of all the Eastern European block, has always had the stones to fight back a
little and retain some measure of autonomy.

I've always liked Reagan but he sure as hell didn't have anything to do with the
Solidarity revolution.

Regards

John Barnard

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote:

"Llgpt" wrote in message
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Subject: The Greatest President In My Lifetime
From: at (CRUSH THE LEFT)
Date: 6/5/2004 8:12 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

Ronald Reagan. The man who defeated Soviet Communism (no wonder liberals
hate
him). May he rest in peace.

So long, Sir. We will continue your fight against the marxist left. And
we
will
win.


The Russians defeated themselves dimwit! They militarily spent their
country
into oblivion.

We don't have to win anything. That part of the cold war is over. Do you
ever
read a newspaper? I thought not.



Actually, Pope John Paul II and Lech Welesa's Solidarity Union had more to
do with the fall of the Soviet Union than anyone in the US did. Poland was
the first to fall, followed shortly by E. Germany.. both because the people
there developed the intestinal fortitude to stand up against their
oppressive governments.

You are wrong about this. Reagan's action were the reason. He had the
vision and the will to make this happen.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California