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A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values The Resurgence of Western Values, 1945–2000s

A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values : The Resurgence of... CHAPTER 6 The Resurgence of Western Values, 1945–2000s The spiritual void of countries ruled by Communists was real. The Pope was right. Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema, former Communist New York Times , 9 January 1999 The years ahead will be a great one for our country, for the course of freedom and for the spread of Civilization. The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. Ronald Reagan, New York Times , 18 May 1981 The Communists misread the victory of World War II: they thought it was the result of the superiority of their value system. It was not. They were saved inadvertently, but they had been so strengthened that it would take until 1991 to get rid of them. The Communist bacillus, which settled in Orthodox Russia and then spread to other parts of the world, had to be defeated—an effort called the Cold War—in order to facilitate the con- tinuing spread of for the West’s religio-political values, which was a far more important story than the expansion of Communism http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values The Resurgence of Western Values, 1945–2000s

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CHAPTER 6 The Resurgence of Western Values, 1945–2000s The spiritual void of countries ruled by Communists was real. The Pope was right. Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema, former Communist New York Times , 9 January 1999 The years ahead will be a great one for our country, for the course of freedom and for the spread of Civilization. The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. Ronald Reagan, New York Times , 18 May 1981 The Communists misread the victory of World War II: they thought it was the result of the superiority of their value system. It was not. They were saved inadvertently, but they had been so strengthened that it would take until 1991 to get rid of them. The Communist bacillus, which settled in Orthodox Russia and then spread to other parts of the world, had to be defeated—an effort called the Cold War—in order to facilitate the con- tinuing spread of for the West’s religio-political values, which was a far more important story than the expansion of Communism

Published: Sep 14, 2016

Keywords: European Economic Community; Communist Regime; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Soviet Bloc; Marshall Plan

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