Posted on 06/06/2004 8:43:37 AM PDT by doug from upland
Wisdom after the fall of the USSR:
Ronald Reagan's appeal ["Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!", Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, June 12th 1987], laughed at in the East as reverie and dismissed in the West as being a utopian dream, was to become reality a good two years later with the collapse of East Germany. After the fall of the Wall on 9 November 1989, Brandenburg Gate was officially opened on December 22nd of that year.
---- Berliner-Morgenpost International, From Fantasy to Wonderful Reality, 1997.
Ladies and gentlemen, if it had not been for the Reagan defense buildup, if the United States had not demonstrated that it is willing not only to stand up for freedom but to devote considerable sums of money to defending it, we probably would not be sitting here today having a free discussion between Russians and Americans.
---- Boris Pinsker, Soviet Economist.
American policy in the 1980s was a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
---- Oleg Kalugin, former KGB general (Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union, page xi.)
[Reagan administration policies] were a major factor in the demise of the Soviet system.
---- Yevgenny Novikov, former senior staff member of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee (CPCC) (Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union, page xi.)
Some 100 prominent Poles have formed a committee to rechristen one of Warsaw's central squares 'Reagan Square.' In this they show a splendid sense of history, and of gratitude. The committee's honorary chairman is Marian Krzaklewski, head of Solidarity, who says, 'Reagan was the main author of the victory of the Free World over the Evil Empire.' National Review's old friend and contributor, Radek Sikorski, now Poland's deputy foreign minister, is chairman of the committee. The square in question is currently called 'Constitution Square,' and the constitution it refers to is the bogus, Communist one of 1952. Reagan Square would join plazas named after George Washington and Woodrow Wilson. Obviously enough, we wish the committee well.
---- National Review, July 26, 1999, pg. 12, column 1.
We are very happy that the coup failed because we have now really destroyed the communist empire, the Soviet state, and of course, as Ronald Reagan said, it was indeed an evil empire and we are glad that it is gone from the earth.
---- Andrei Kozyrev, Yeltsin Foreign Minister, speaking to ABC's Sam Donaldson, after the communist hard-liners coup attempt failed in 1991.
All this time I thought it was God who brought the wall down so He could open up the Communist countries to allow His children (the Jews) to go home to Israel. In 1948 Israel was made a nation again and It was the first time in 2000 years that they had a country to return to. I read in the Bible that God said HE would call HIS children home from all over the world before the Lord comes.
It was obvious He used President Reagan to complete that task. I actually thought that this was Bible Prophesy being fulfilled, but now I can see that I was wrong. If Juan Williams said it was Osama and the Taliban who brought the wall down, then I KNOW it must be as he said. </ sarcasm> :-)
Bump To The Top. Never, never, never forget.
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