At the age of 72, I look back at my life, and I ask a question: “What was the most significant event of my lifetime?” I go back and forth between two events, but in fact they were the same event. The first was the decision of Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to begin to remove economic controls over agriculture in China. That led to the greatest period of economic growth over the largest area in the history of man. The second was the collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in late August 1991. This was followed by … Continue reading The Suicide of Communism