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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted James Palmer

      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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      James Palmer @BeijingPalmer
      Here is Ronald Reagan praising Soviet sister city exchanges in 1986. "Sister Cities International is also an important part of our effort to expand and broaden contacts and communications between the people of the United States and the Soviet Union."
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2020

      2. Reagan & Thatcher really seized the opportunity Gorbachev presented & pushed for not just greater diplomatic ties but also, just as important, cultural & business ties. Gorbachev, Thatcher famously said, was someone you could do business with. This drove the right crazy.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2020

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2020

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          4. This. https://twitter.com/KeaneBhatt/status/1235771107648684032 …

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        1. Rocco Ríos Novo stan account‏ @BC_Bryson 5 Mar 2020
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          Tired: Bernie was just doing a nice diplomatic mission Wired: Bernie was acting as a Soviet Asset Inspired: Bernie was a US Asset working to bring down the Soviet Union

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        1. Sean Ernst‏ @SeanErnst 5 Mar 2020
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          Was it? I think a lot of westerners underestimate just how horrific that transistion was to the average Russian. What did they transition to? A kleptocracy?

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        1. Timo Mott‏ @Mottimot3 5 Mar 2020
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          Unfortunately, few people in the 4 or 5 deciding swing states will read pass the first line of tweet 2/3...

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        1. Andrew Elder‏ @awelder 5 Mar 2020
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          This thinking carried over into dealing with China

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        2. I. Heyst‏ @BlogMinor 5 Mar 2020
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          Did they transition to democracy tho

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        3. I. Heyst‏ @BlogMinor 5 Mar 2020
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          The greatest display of democracy the world has ever known, the Russian election of 1996

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        1. Sherparick‏ @sherpaCato 5 Mar 2020
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          The NYT politics desk is addicted to click baiting. If you were alive & sentient in the late eighties you realize this article is a joke.

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        1. Tobias Levander‏ @Tiburtius 5 Mar 2020
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          Sorry, this won’t work in 2020, thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union. No matter what President Reagan may have said.

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        1. Jake‏ @dr_jaked 5 Mar 2020
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          It helped the transition to oligarchy. What are you talking about, Jeet.

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