I got to walk past Lenin in his tomb in Red Square. That was cool.
But Lenin was a revolutionary, Reagan was nothing more than an empty populist:
March 31, 1976: Reagan's televised appeal to the nation for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination. Gerald Ford ultimately won the nomination, but Reagan was soon planning his return to national politics in 1980.
"The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. It took this nation 166 years--until the middle of World War II--to finally accumulate a debt of $95 billion. It took this administration just the last 12 months to add $95 billion to the debt. And this administration has run up almost one-fourth of the total national debt in just these short 19 months."
How ironic.
Fuck you Ronnie!