![]() ![]() The Cold War was over, and the United States had won it. ![]() On the American side, not so much changed on that day. I believe that at its very conception the idea of socialism was stillborn.”īut the Cold War as an ideological struggle disappeared only in part, despite Communism’s implosion. I must now admit that we started from the wrong basis, from the wrong premise. “And if Lenin were alive today, he would say the same thing. “If I had to do it over again, I would not even be a Communist,” Bulgaria’s deposed Communist leader, Todor Zhivkov, had said the year before. Communism itself, in its Marxist-Leninist form, had ceased to exist as a practical ideal for how to organize society. ![]() The Cold War as a system of states ended on a cold and gray December day in Moscow in 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Soviet Union out of existence. ![]()
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