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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness.



#99: Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was the 40th president of the United States.

He is a hero of Western culture chiefly because of his moral stand against Communism, the most deadly ideology the world has ever known with more than 85 million deaths caused by it in the 20th century. In every essential respect, Communism is a profoundly anti-Western-culture ideology.

Reagan's accurate description of the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire" helped to drain any remaining favorable moral standing Communism may have claimed.

Communism and the Soviet Union may have likely collapsed under their own savagery and impotence before long, but Reagan hastened their demise which no doubt prevented needless suffering and the loss of yet more lives.



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