Today in History, former president Ronald Reagan referred to the U.S.S.R. as 'Evil Empire'. He made a former reference to this once before at a speech in the British House of Commons, in 1982.
Here is an excerpt from www.history.com
Reagan's aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union became known as the Reagan Doctrine. He warned against what he and his supporters saw as the dangerous trend of tolerating the Soviets' build-up of nuclear weapons and attempts to infiltrate Third World countries in order to spread communism. Advocating a peace through strength policy, Reagan declared that the Soviets must be made to understand we will never compromise our principles and standards [nor] ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. To do so would mean abandoning the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
May we take the words of Ronald Reagan seriously today. The principles are still there. It is just harder to see them now. We don't know the difference between right and wrong, or, good and evil. We have become perverse. We need help.
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