STEVEN JONAS—Returning to the Soviet experience, one must acknowledge (which Western analysts, neither capitalist nor self-styled “socialist” do) that it was shaped in a significant part by what someday will come to be known as “The 75 Years War Against the Soviet Union, 1917-1992.” One must also acknowledge, that every other attempt at some sort of socialist experiment following World War II (except for Cuba) was beaten back and eventually destroyed by Western Imperialism, most often led by the United States. That is, the Soviet experience did not take place in a neutral environment. “Peaceful Co-existence” a la Khrushchev, and indeed a la John F. Kennedy in his “American University Speech” of 1963 (with which he signed his own death warrant), was never tried.