Saturday, November 15, 2014

In 1985 Rev. Sun Myung Moon pushed Dr. Morton Kaplan to proclaim the Fall of the Soviet Empire















The Fall of the Soviet Empire” Conference, August 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland. The story: In 1984, Alexis Rannit, an émigré Estonian poet, sent a letter to PWPA that all empires fall and suggesting that the Soviet Empire should be studied so that its collapse could be peaceful. Dr. Morton Kaplan took the proposal for a conference titled The Fall of the Soviet Empire to Reverend Moon. Reverend Moon had already predicted that the Soviet empire would fall within 70 years of its founding, since it did not address the reality of human spiritual life. He agreed to sponsor the conference.
A number of prominent Sovietologists were skeptical of the conference title, but it turned out to be prophetic. One important conference participant later commented: “The conference not only more accurately predicted what was to happen in the Soviet Union than any other source, but I believe it also helped shape the unfolding of the system in a more peaceful way than might otherwise have happened.

Second International Congress, "The Fall of the Soviet Empire": Prospects for Transition to a Post-Soviet World. - Professors World Peace Academy

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