Robert Krieble was a model and inspiration for conservatives. In a world where most decision-makers were fashioning their policies on the assumption that the socialist way of thinking and the Soviet Union are permament fixtures on the planet, Robert Krieble and some other great leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher thought otherwise. Those people refused to be blinded by the Red Smog. They broke the back of the Soviet Empire in the Cold War, pressed the Soviet Union into the corner, and gave captive nations the possibility to destroy the Soviet Empire from inside. The progress made by former socialist countries serves as testimony to the wisdom of those who fought the long Cold War against the "Evil Empire" that was the Soviet Union.