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For just as the Cold War had frozen the results of World War II in place, so détente sought to freeze the Cold War in place. Its purpose was not to end that conflict—the differences dividing its antagonists were still too deep for that—but rather to establish rules by which
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
How can the economy advance,” he asked, “if it creates preferential conditions for backward enterprises and penalizes the foremost ones
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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