The Soviet Union was an unnatural empire stretching an entire continent, ultimately born to unravel. In these camps, Uyghur Muslims are forced to drink alcohol and eat pork — serious violations of their religious traditions — and are indoctrinated with Communist Party propaganda, through torture if necessary. After Reagan’s 1983 “evil empire” speech, in which he correctly identified the Soviet Union as “the focus of evil in the modern world,” liberal supporters of détente were apoplectic. The Reagan-era officials who then labeled the Soviet Union “evil” were a minority. Then, a mere eight years after articulating its evilness, the Soviet empire was gone.

Source: Daily Sun October 02, 2019 05:15 UTC