Flick ??Thank God we won the Cold War. For a while there, it was touch and go, the future of the world on a knife-edge.
On one side, we had a system permeated top to bottom by an official state ideology. Employment and freedom was made contingent on adherence, an extensive network of censors and informers was established to maintain the illusion that dissenters were a minority, harsh punishments were meted out to political prisoners, and the state took control of vast swathes of the economy.
On the other, the promise of freedom: freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and association, freedom to do as you would with your private property.
It was, as I said, close. But in the end, despite Thatcher’s brief, doomed fightback, the Socialists won.
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