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kleinbl00  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mind-blowing literature?

    Even if Pipes was responsible for the CW dragging on longer than it had to, he probably did it out of genuine love of the West and fear of the Soviets.

No doubt. Remember - I grew up in Los Alamos, NM. The W88 was designed by my peeps. Thing is, there's a lot more information available now than there was in 1984 and far more perspectives are available... yet Pipes' writing illustrates pretty clearly that he figured it all out back in the '70s and has been fitting all available information into his worldview ever since, rather than the other way 'round.

I don't question his motives. I don't question his scholarship. I simply observe that his perspective is perhaps too archaic for my tastes, having grown up with the Soviets front'n'center and having adapted to a world in which they are not now, and never have been, the "Evil Empire."