I’m just old enough to vividly recall a world in which the Soviet Union was the great, terrible and sure to be around for a very, very long time “evil empire”. A great deal of American and global culture was shaped around the “fact” of Soviet vitality and strength.
For my entire childhood and into my high school years, the Soviet Union was a sad fact of life; an ulgly part of reality that had every appearance of going on forever and, quite possibly, taking over the world.
At least that was the spin we were fed by pagan propagandists at every turn for generations in America, going back many decades before I was even born. The Soviets Union was huge – it covered about 1/6 of the surface of the earth – and it had a gigantic military that was seemingly on the march here, there and everywhere. Its more overtly communistic brand of Statism was heralded as a beautiful and unstoppable force by intellectuals throughout the West. Its power was the object of awestruck adoration and admiration from even the majority of those who hated its core identity.
And then, one day, it just sort of imploded.
The Berlin Wall came down, and that was pretty much it. In what seemed to be a flash, the “invincible” global superpower known as the U.S.S.R. was gone. Dead. Finished. There are lessons from this relatively recent historical example for us to hold close as we watch the American spin a Statist empire come crashing down around us. How fast can America fall?
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