This is blatantly false. The U.S. didn't change any regimes in Europe in 1989, abd it's ridiculous to claim that the U.S. possessed the capability to change the

This is blatantly false. The U.S. didn't change any regimes in Europe in 1989, abd it's ridiculous to claim that the U.S. possessed the capability to change the European socialist regimes. In Poland the opposition won the 1989 election after the rules favoring the communist party loosened. In Hungary the parliament (the very same communist one that was elected in 1985) voted ona law legalizing for freedom of association and a new electoral rule. The regime didn't change at all and the opposition only won the next election in 1990. Romania underwent a violent revolution precipitated by the Timișoara uprising, with no U.S. connection. Arguably the biggest U.S. involvement in a 1989 revolution was the U.S. embassy briefly negotiating with the Czechoslovakian regime after a number of American journalists were beaten by state security in the early days of the Velvet Revolution [1]. Not exactly CIA-regime-change level stuff. Claiming significant brain drain / emigration to the US after 1989 is also a blatant falsehood. Even the population of Polish-born Americans (the most likely Eastern European group to emigrate to the U.S.) decreased through 1989-1995. The only country of origin that increased its share at the time was the Soviet Union, a country that did not undergo regime change in 1989 (and suggesting that the US somehow changed the Soviet regime in 1992 would be truly hilarious). Czech and Hungarian emigration numbers decreased immrdiately after 1989, and a whole lot of educated Eastern European citizens who were forced to leave after 1956/1968 were finally able to return to their homelands, in many cases bringing their First World educated families with them. [1] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB141/doc02.pdf https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB141/doc02.pdf