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Congratulations to the surviving members of the generation in Russia that prevailed in the Great Patriotic War.
Perhaps, now that Stalin is dead and communism consigned to the dustbin of history, now that the Pershing Missiles and the Warsaw Pact have been extirpated - people of good will on both sides of the Bering Strait can finally learn to get along, to work together, and to become genuine friends. My earnest prayer - as a US Army Cold War veteran - is that the warhawks and the military industry profiteers who wish to line their pockets with tax money by scaring our peoples - in both countries - are overcome. Let the dream of Reagan and Gorbachev become reality in our time. To get there, though, we must defeat the fearmongers.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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