n0> America of the eighties gets no credit for the fall of communism.
“whom do you believe – me or your lying eyes”? maybe you did not live thru those times or forgot already. Public opinion at a time did not yet make a decision which country is better. Here is from Reagan’s 1983 evil empire speech:
Whittaker Chambers.. said, for Marxism-Leninism is actually the second-oldest faith, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, “Ye shall be as gods.”..
I believe we shall rise to the challenge. I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last–last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. For in the words of Isaiah: “He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no…might He increased strength. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary.