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Published 11/04/2009 by VOA News

Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War

The 20th anniversary of the 1989 East European revolutions has re-opened contentious debate over who won the Cold War and what caused Soviet communism to disintegrate so rapidly in its final years. The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was a symbolic milestone,...

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...from within. "Since the very beginning, I have been advocating the rather unpopular concept that communism was not defeated, [but] that it collapsed or simply melted down ... Communism was at the end of the 1980s already too weak, soft, old, and emptied of all meaning to exist much longer" Mr. Klaus said...

Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War [VOA News - 11/04/2009]

...under Stalinism. "So, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it fell not under a barrage of artillery, but under hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had lost faith in the ideas" he said.But Nye says...

Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War [VOA News - 11/04/2009]

...the collapse. "He wanted to save communism but in the process of trying to save it, he accelerated its demise … So his policies of perestroika, [or, economic] restructuring, and then glasnost, or openness, speeded up the disintegration of the Soviet empire" Nye said.Richard Pipes...

Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War [VOA News - 11/04/2009]

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