You have to hand it to the old Hollywood pro and the up-and coming Russian leading man: in terms of spectacle, the Moscow Summit was in the Oscar range. The sight of Ronald Reagan addressing students at Moscow State University beneath a massive bust of Lenin was not one that I (or I dare say other NR readers) ever expected to see. Reagan telling the Soviets to improve their record on human rights yet discarding his “evil empire” label . . . Where will it all end?
In fact, the show-biz dazzle concealed a far graver matter of political semantics, which is in a sense what the Summit was all about.
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