Opinion of this quote (downfall of Soviet Union and proxy wars in Africa)

[minionofmidas]

"It's difficult to understand now, but at the time we really believed that the battle between capitalism and socialsm was inevitable, unavoidable, and, in the final instance, destined to be won by socialsm. Going against it would have been like trying to go against the tide of history.

Do you know the joke about the husband who decides to murder his wife by screwing her to death? After weeks of constant love-making, she is looking very sprightly, while he is in a wheelchair, utterly exhausted. "Poor thing", he whispers to a friend. "She doesn't realize she has only days to live." We were exactly like that when it came to capitalism. "Poor thing", we kept telling ourselves. "It doesn't realize it's doomed."

We entered Ethiopia step by step, in stupidity, but we had this conception we were fulfilling an international duty to help people struggling against capitalist oppression."

(c) Anatoly Adamishin, deputy foreign minister under Gorbachev