'In the End I Was Right': How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism
Such crude censorship failed to conceal the grim reality of Bolshevik rule from those millions who were unfortunate enough to be trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Yet many European and North American government officials and intellectuals were duped, naïvely overestimating Soviet strength in the same way that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times now touts the life expectancy of children born in Beijing. Fortunately for America and for those under the jackboot of Soviet Communism, there were some who saw past the propaganda to the cruel truth.
- ▪Such crude censorship failed to conceal the grim reality of Bolshevik rule from those millions who were unfortunate enough to be trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
- ▪Yet many European and North American government officials and intellectuals were duped, naïvely overestimating Soviet strength in the same way that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times now touts the life expectancy of children born in Bei
- ▪Fortunately for America and for those under the jackboot of Soviet Communism, there were some who saw past the propaganda to the cruel truth.
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National Security 'In the End I Was Right': How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism REVIEW: 'The Man Who Knew Russia: Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold Warrior' by Jonathan Daly 'The Man Who Knew Russia' (Amazon), Soviet, American flags (Grabien) Ira Stoll June 28, 2026 image/svg+xml .st0{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st1{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} In 1949, during Stalin's reign as dictator of the Soviet Union, obituaries in the Communist-controlled newspapers stopped including the ages of those who died, "presumably for fear of revealing a declining life expectancy," Jonathan Daly writes in The Man Who Knew Russia, his new biography…
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