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No cemetary scene.. but I remember goiing to see the RFKennedy funeral train... just north of Princeton. Was running hours late, partly due to crowds. As for how much Reagan contributed to destroy communism... Sheesh! Reagan had more to do with the East's collapse than I want to credit him with BUT.... The system collapsed because: 1. It was corrupt... and corruption rots from within. (does that in Any country) 2. It polluted the east bloc to the point that the populations rebelled... Poland's Solidarity was NOT a Reagan creation. And the dead forests of Czechoslovakia got the Church to protest... making a populist revolt possible. (You cannot put down a populist revolt without French-revolution style bloodshed). 3. The Soviets had lots of contracts to supply Western Europe with oil... Germany was a HUGE customer. Even Russians know that to get cash, you need to deliver, and the maintenance of pipelines in the Brezhnev era was pitiful! Detent was a part of the equation, too... thanks to Nixon (who I Really didn't llike) 4. Oh, there was that Reagan guy, too. He best contribution in my book... "Plausible denyability" (aka, subverting the constitution). 5. And did you forget the Pope... funny that Pres. Bush remembered to tribute him just last week - for helping do a large part!
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