Posted on 11/09/2009 6:03:09 AM PST by MaxCUA
Ronald Reagan never stopped regarding the Berlin Wall as an affront to human freedom. When so many other American leaders and opinion makers had come to accept its presence as inevitable and permanent, Reagan still hammered away at the Wall’s very premise in human tyranny, until finally the Wall itself was hammered down. Its downfall wasn’t the work of Reagan alone. Our president’s actions were joined with the brave acts of many individuals who stood firm and united in facing the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall came down because millions of people behind the Iron Curtain refused to accept the fate of enslavement and their supporters in the West refused to accept that the “captive nations” would remain captive forever.
It was Kohl who negotiated with the Soviets to make it happen. The Soviets, for their part, caught no longer financially support East Germany- and so the wall came down.
It was Kohl who negotiated with the Soviets to make it happen. The Soviets, for their part, could no longer financially support East Germany- and so the wall came down.
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Another factor that nobody mentions was Tienanmen Square. Even though it failed in China, it served as an inspiration to people behind the Iron Curtain.
Yes, you’re right. Yeltsin on top of the tanks defending fledgling Russian democracy was another inspired event.
Others who were a factor:
Pope John Paul II
Lech Walesa
Vaclav Havel
Heroes, all.
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