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- Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:34 pm
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- Topic: Mikhail Gorbachev ‘blamed Dallas for bringing down communism in the Soviet Union’
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Re: Mikhail Gorbachev ‘blamed Dallas for bringing down communism in the Soviet Union’
The East German ex-communist military officers I met in about 1990 or so, when I asked them what they thought about the west now that they had unfettered access, all said the same thing: "My eyes have been opened." I don't remember them mentioning Dallas tho. :) One of them had been a fighter squadron commander and was able to travel closer to the border than the others. He told me that when he did so, he started realizing that maybe everything he had been told about the west was not quite true. The others were of lower rank, and were not able to travel. They said the only thing they were ever taught about the US were drugs, over-rich capitalists and lots of poor peeple, and racism, racism, racism. Kinda like an american university. But after the wall came down: "My eyes have been opened!"