Existing comment:
"They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man... they are the focus of evil in the modern world."
-- Ronald Reagan, on the Soviet Union, March 8, 1983
Dictatorship:
The idea that government exists to serve the people was turned upside down behind the Iron Curtain. The Soviet Union was an expansionist military dictatorship supported by the labor of its people.
Freedoms taken for granted in the West -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and a free press -- were a cause for imprisonment or worse. Ronald Reagan declared repeatedly that the goal of Soviet communism was worldwide domination. |