Posted on 04/08/2010 1:29:48 PM PDT by TigerBait
There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.
Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: "The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful."
The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not "competition in astrophysics and athletics." It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet "sphere of influence" was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.
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Story is from last year but gives relevant insight into Obama's flawed thinking (or lack thereof).
Also note the acceptance of mass murder from Communism. The leftists reserve moral clarity in condemnation only of the actions of the United States.
“The American and Soviet armies were still...”
Oh shut the hell up.
FUBO
And Mr. uhbama....."Tear down your LIES!"
Ronald Reagan lives in our hearts, uhbama, and we know WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN MOVING THE SOVIETS IN THE EASTERN BLOCK TO TEAR DOWN THAT HORRID SYMBOLIC WALL....
go to hell you pos
What do you expect from someone reared by Communist parents and grandparents, mentored throughout his adolescence by Communists, and then sent to the Left-wing Ivy League universities as a quota student? The miracle would have been that he would have turned out to be someone who loves America.
Obama is 100% correct.
The communists have seized control of Washington with marxist Obama, his illegal tyrant Czars, and a totally corrupted congress.
Well that explains a lot. One can’t possibly learn from history, if one does not know or recognize TRUE history. No wonder Obama thinks he can get away with this government overreach...
Poland, a member of NATO, flies F-16’s patrolling former Soviet territory.
Yep, no winner at all-LOL!
America never voted for Communism and Islam, despite
the Kenyan Emperor-by-Trick’s claim.
This anti-American piece of commie-crap is POTUS...... how is that even possible????
BINGO!! Johnny, we have a winner!
Ignorant twit. What a waste of time this idiot is.
Yes, Barry. They SURRENDERED.
If the “Cold War” was nothing more than a zero sum competition in athletics and astrophysics, than why did so many people try to get out of the “Socialist Workers Paradises”? Comrade Zero is playing the moral equivalence game.
So much for having a President speak loud and clear about the virtues of FREEDOM, Democracy, Capitalism, and all that is great about America.
Barry should go back under whatever Chicago rock he crawled out from under and take up ‘community organizing’ again. His Peter Principle moment was back in IL.
July, ‘09. Old news.
Not shocked.
Barry Soetoro, Screwing America Daily.
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