“How much do their leaders believe in communism?” That was the first question Ronald Reagan asked Suzanne Massie, the recently passed Soviet and Russia expert, during their meetings while Reagan was president.
Without ever having known Reagan, the question sounds like something he would have asked. By all accounts Reagan was a true believer, as in he knew communism would fail simply because communism ran counter to human nature. Reagan presumably asked the question given his skepticism that Soviet officialdom could actually believe in something so at odds with nature.
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