“Now the Soviet Union has been faced with one disaster after another that they will not admit to the world that these have happened nor to themselves. They will not face up to their growing internal collapse realistically. And if it were not for us propping them up, they would collapse.”

— Rousas John Rushdoony

Audio lectures, Decadence and the New Age (March 10, 1989)

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