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Article: Academy still uneasy with claim of Cold War triumph.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2004
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Byline: Harvey Kleh, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A significant cadre of historians cannot abide the idea that the United States won the Cold
War. More than 70 years after Russia became a communist state and proclaimed that its goal and destiny was to vanquish all forms of capitalism, after nearly 50 years of conflict - often covert, occasionally via proxies and always ideological - during which the USSR proclaimed that its social system was the model for the rest of the world, the communist system imploded in its heartland.
To any rational observer, this looks like a pretty clear-cut result. More than a decade after the collapse of the ...