In ‘This Meeting Is Over’, Alan Dowd looks back at Reagan’s Reykjavik meeting with Gorbachev, which most observers considered a failure, and America’s subsequent victory over the “evil empire”:
We can measure its evil in many ways, but perhaps the easiest way is its utter contempt for human life: One historian estimates the Soviet regime’s murder toll at a staggering 62 million. And Lenin’s victims died on nearly every continent. The trail of blood stretches across eight decades and spans four generations.In short, Reagan was not overstating when he called the USSR “evil.”