There's one exception to what the gentleman said. I heard Daniel Monynihan give a speech in January 1985 where he predicted--he was a little wrong because he predicted by the end of the century the Soviet empire would disintegrate because of its own failings.
Berman cites Monynihan's prediction about the Soviet Union's collapse.
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