Alexander Solzhenitsyn Set the Stage for Reagan and Walesa
“Nikolay, we both know you have no idea what a neocon was or is, and you wouldn’t know Irving Kristol or Norman Pohhoretz from a hole in the ground.”
Well, you’re veery mature here, and, of course, wrong.
And no amount of Orwellian historical revisionism can hide the fact that neocons called Reagan an appeaser and cut-and-runner, compared him to Nevil Chamberlain and even after the end of his turn claimed that his Russian policies will end in disaster. Sure, he listened to them, but in his overall approach to USSR he was anti-neocon.
You can either claim that Reagan was just extraordinary lucky that vicious Communists didn’t succeed in their devious plans despite having successfully duped Reagan or say that his policies were, in the end, failures (like, Russia is still around and not in the Stone Age), or, try to rewrite history. The last approach seems to be most popular.
