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Conservatives believe that SDI, along with the massive American military buildup in the '80s, was the strategy by which Reagan forced the Soviets to bankrupt themselves, hastening the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The timing of those events, at the end of the Reagan years, disconcerts Reagan's critics. They claim that the Soviet collapse was the result of long years of economic inefficiency and deterioration, and of Gorbachev's loosening of the bolts through glasnost and perestroika...
...toll on morale has been the end of the Cold War combined with the rise in non-combat missions that troops are increasingly deployed on," says Thompson. "The missions aren't as exciting today as they were during the Cold War. The fundamental problem is the loss of the Soviet Union." The findings, say Thompson, could help lead to a reexamining of the size of America's military. "When the Chiefs of Staff look for answers as to why people are leaving and they find that morale is falling, they have to start asking the difficult questions. So you have...
...helps him rejoin the local swim team by going with him every day to a river where he rebuilds his strength by swimming against the current. She hopes he will win a national race and be selected to go to Vienna for the European championships. Once out of the Soviet Union, Sacha will be able to help Marie...
...Sandrine Bonnaire successfully portrays the anguish of a woman trapped in a world she cannot accept. We sympathize, but can't help feeling she is responsible for her misfortunes. Marie stubbornly refuses to understand there is no easy solution to her predicament; the Soviet authorities will not permit her to return to France. Ultimately, the fault lies with Wargnier. He has created a character of heroic proportions, a woman who endures unimaginable hardships, years of exile in a forced labor camp, to escape Soviet Russia. In the process, he has deprived his protagonist of a more human face...
...Russians managed to lead interesting and productive lives and even find happiness under Stalin's regime. By portraying Alexei's submission to the Party as a sacrifice he secretly undergoes to help Marie escape, Wargnier offers little more than a commentary on the brutality and rigidity of the Soviet Union. But we can't help wondering about brighter moments in the lives of Wargnier's protagonists...