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Berlin, 1989
Looking at the fall of the Berlin Wall
It has been 20 years since the wall that separated East and West Germany came down ending the Cold War in Eastern Europe. Reagan was applauded for demanding that Gorbachev tear down the wall and Gorbachev went on to win the Nobel Prize and be named the Man of the Decade by TIME Magazine. Were the efforts enormous or was the implosion of the Iron Curtain inevitable? Twenty years later how much does November 9th, 1989 really matter?
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Oh Thank God somebody finally came out and took an axe to the Ronald Reagan myth. The irony is that Hungarian immigrants in the US still give Reagan credit for destroying Communism, when it was their fellow Hungarians who stood up and said that they would no longer secure the Hungarian border with Austria; releasing any and all East Germans to take off--and they did. Once the East German government realized that their whole country was going to escape west via Hungary, the whole house of cards collapsed.