But when it comes to the question of who triumphed in the cold war, a great smog immediately blankets the question. Everybody agrees that the Allies beat Germany in two world wars and that the United States lost in Vietnam. The United States did not "win" the cold war, period. But there is no more Soviet Union, no Berlin Wall, no Gulag. Liberal academic opinion has created the fiction that nobody won the cold war. Why? So that when our children and their children read their history textbooks they will never know that the democracies, led by the United States and a popular two-term president, Ronald Reagan, triumphed over Soviet totalitarianism. George Orwell wrote, "He who controls the past controls the future." Some of the most distinguished American historians are working hard to "control" the past by proving, to state it simply, that the United States did not win the cold war.
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