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When Reagan visited the Soviet Union in May, 1988, Gorbachev arranged for him to lecture at Moscow State University on the virtues of market capitalism. From beneath a huge bust of Lenin, the president evoked computer chips, rock stars, movies, and the “irresistible power of unarmed truth.” The students gave him a standing ovation.93 Soon Gorbachev was repeating what he had learned
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Evidently this trade fired the imagination of the secret services, since the CIA eventually set up a triangular operation to sell weaponry to
He had authorized the construction of the Berlin Wall, a public humiliation for Marxism-Leninism
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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