Sites of interest.
Openthegovernment.org.
And National Security Archive.
From same site:
-Man involved in Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemela arrested in Alberta on U.S. naturalization fraud.
-How the U.S. moved forward with the Iraq war without concrete proof.
-Sometimes I wonder if we under rate Poland's role in the fall of communism. Specifically with Lech Walesa. It's one thing to claim the U.S. "won" the war (by the late 1980s the Soviet Union was basically dazed and confused), quite another to make it happen like Poland did.
"Record of conversation between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the leader of Polish Solidarity Lech Walesa, Warsaw, November 9, 1989. In this extraordinary conversation (available previously only in German), Solidarity’s leader fears the collapse of the Wall would distract West Germany’s attention - and money - to the GDR, at the time when Poland, the trail-blazer to the post-communist era in Eastern Europe, desperately needed both. "Events are moving too fast," Walesa said, and only hours later, the Wall fell, and Kohl had to cut his Poland visit short to scramble back to Berlin, thus proving Walesa’s fear correct."
You bring up something that I would like to expand upon.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we are wise to think that "the U.S. won the Cold War." We all did, including the Russians. In fact, the defining moments were played out in the collapsing USSR, not in Washington, DC. Yes, the U.S. played a huge role, but ultimately it was the people who repudiated communism all over the world who played the crucial parts in bringing down the religious-philosophical-political fraud of communism.
Soviet style communism never had a chance from the start. By the 1980s, the attempts by nations like Hungary and Czecoslovakia to split away had come to fruition with East Germany and Poland. And from there, all the former satellites and republics.
ReplyDeleteRussia to me was and never will be a true superpower.
Russia to me was and never will be a true superpower.
ReplyDeleteDude, you're making Putin very, very angry.
Screw him. Truth hurts.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even convinced Canada belongs in the G7. We're there because our biggest trading partner got us in.