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On the recordFebruary 7, 1995
Because of his policies of peace through strength and pushing the Russian bear back and refusing to allow our allies to be intimidated by the Soviet Union and finally breaking down the Soviet Union, he created a situation in which literally millions of families around the world no longer had to sit huddled at their dinner table waiting for that knock on the door from a representative of their police state involving themselves in that family's affairs, taking off members of that family to the gulags, to the jails, to the prisons, because of their beliefs, because of their religious beliefs, their desire for freedom or their desire simply not to be ruled by a particular dictatorship or proletarian state. So Ronald Reagan freed literally tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people around this world who had very little relationship to the United States.
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Andrew P. Hunter
Illinois

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Discussing Ronald Reagan's impact on global freedom during a speech.

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