To: Brian Griffin
The ball got rolling with Solidarity in Poland. Encouraged by the Polish Pope, Reagan and Thatcher, that bit of freedom was like acid that rapidly started eating away the totalitarian state
3 posted on
08/30/2022 9:51:13 PM PDT by
j.havenfarm
(21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: j.havenfarm
I was at a speech by Lech Walesa and he was asked his opinion of Gorbachev:
"He wanted to save communism and the world was so impressed with his failure they gave him a Nobel Prize."
To: j.havenfarm
The ball got rolling with Solidarity in Poland.Started in Poznan in 1956, and Gdansk in 1970.
19 posted on
08/31/2022 6:39:06 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: j.havenfarm
Actually the trigger for 1989 was Tiananmen Square, it provided inspiration to the people in the Captive Nations to rise up.
20 posted on
08/31/2022 6:40:43 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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