1. To address the scare-mongering NY Times piece on Sanders in the USSR in the 1980s more seriously, the crucial context was the thaw & opening, which was welcomed not only by the left but also, crucially, by conservative leaders like Reagan and Thatcher.https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1235759796877434880 …
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3. It was a widely shared belief in the west that contact with Western culture would help liberalize the Soviet bloc & help the transition to democracy. And that belief was correct! The people who complained about this at the time (Norman Podhoretz types) were wrong.
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I mean, it says it in the piece itself.
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You pushed Russiagate Jeet, give yourself a pat on the back, job well done.
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