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Question: Vote for the Atlas Person of the Decade of the 1980s...
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Milton Friedman		  
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John Paul II		  
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Mikhail Gorbachev		  
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Ronald Reagan		  
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Deng Xiaoping		  
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« on: June 18, 2008, 07:38:30 AM »
Vote for the Atlas Person of the decade for the 1980s. Nominations are compiled from the thread here. Please explain the reason for your choice.

The poll will run for 3 days. Polls for later decades will follow in the coming days.
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2008, 10:23:53 AM »
Ronald Reagan
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 11:40:45 AM »
« Edited: June 19, 2008, 03:13:19 AM by TheWildCard »
Close call between Reagan Gorbachev and, since he was such a great person, John Paul II but I'll have to go with Reagan here.
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2008, 08:01:19 PM »
John Paul II played a big role in helping to end communism in the Eastern Bloc, and as much as I'm not a fan of Catholicism, I have to give JPII my vote.
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« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 07:36:53 AM »

lol
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2008, 07:49:53 AM »
Friedman. But Steve Jobs should be added.
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2008, 07:54:14 AM »

Didn't receive any nominations. (I'd also wager he wouldn't receive any votes, but that's another quite apart.)
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2008, 01:27:42 PM »
Gorbachev.

The fall of the USSR and everything.
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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2008, 02:23:34 PM »
Reagan, Buckley is close
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« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2008, 02:07:52 PM »
Reagan and Gorbachev complemented each other regarding the ending of the Cold War however Pope John Paul II will never get the credit he deserves for the Solidarity movement. He may have not been the face of it but his election in 1978 opened the door for Poland in their movement.


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« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2008, 04:16:32 PM »
Pretty much. Either him or Deng.
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War on Want
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« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2008, 06:15:43 PM »
Gorbachev for trying to reform the Soviet Union and leading to its collapse.
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« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2008, 07:02:45 PM »
Mikhail Gorbachev.

It was a tough choice between Gorbachev and John Paul II. However out of the two, Gorbachev narrowly takes the cake and is my Person of the Decade for the 1980's thanks to reforms such as Perestroika, which ultimatly led to the down fall of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
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« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2008, 05:34:48 PM »
Ronald Reagan and Mikhael Gorbachev
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