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- XopherMV, on 11/09/2009, -2/+14Notice that the article says nothing about Reagan bringing down the Wall. Evidently, like a lot of things that Republicans claim today, the claim that Reagan brought down the Wall has little to do with the actual facts.
- javaco, on 11/08/2009, -0/+12The very last minutes at the border post in a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_eCVhCGYwE - javaco, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10Healthcare in Germany was introduced 126 Years ago. Long before the GDR existed. And long before the Nazis too (just to avoid wrong comments).
The funny thing is that it has been implemented by the chancelor of the emperor (kaiser). You'd hardly find a more conservative person. Also funny is that he sold it as an act of christian charity.
If one knows the historical context your posting is simply absurd :) - bharatssc, on 11/08/2009, -6/+16it is one of the greatest articles, on one of the finest subjects of the world history. something, that our generation would celebrate & remember for all the times to come. it is one of those things, that really changed the face of human world for the times to come. one of the things that would be remembered, whenever, the pages of history are turned!
- cyberdork, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7The Fall of the Iron Curtain. A short summary:
1989: USSR changes Brezhnev doctrine to Gorbachev's 'Sinatra' doctrine
-> USSR guarantees non-intervention in the internal affairs of Warsaw Pact countries
-> Solidarność movement in Poland results in first democratic elections
-> Government change in Hungary -> Opens border to neutral Austria
-> 35.000 East German tourists flee via Hungary to Austria
-> East Germany stops tourism to Hungary
-> 10.000 East German tourist storm West German embassy in Prague (CSSR)
-> East Germany closes border to CSSR
-> Increased pressure on the East German hardliners by large peaceful 'Monday' demonstrations
-> Nov 9 1989, Berlin wall falls - spworm, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8It's a good article. Your comment however is 99% hyperbole.
- whatthefu, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8The Berlin wall was a matter of freedom vs. totalitarianism. Socialism doesn't favor totalitarianism, and for that matter socialism isn't even overtaking the US, so shut up.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -3/+8So I guess this article is now the sole authority on the fall of the Berlin Wall?
BTW Reagan was just one of the many catalysts to the fall of the wall. Bush Sr helped as well just by not gloating like a dick and actually working with Gorbachev. But mostly it was just the flawed theory of communism that has never worked. - pwSociety, on 11/09/2009, -3/+7I thought it was going to be about the Pink Floyd album. Oh well.
- cyberdork, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Mikhail Gorbachev's will to remove the tyrannical domination by the USSR over the East Bloc countries was the main factor for ending the cold war.
The USSR could have simply stopped the democratic forces in Eastern Europe by allowing it's already present troops to interfere, as they did in earlier decades. - whatthefu, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3There are a lot of great events in history. I don't know if we need to be quite so dramatic about one or another.
- javaco, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5I think he influenced the development politically on a meta level.
Somewhere i read that many Republicans where against his efforts to solve up the cold war.
The biggest part played Mikhail Gorbachev in the german unification. - spworm, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4I like to think the east germans were listening to Scorpions - "Wind of Change".
The gruesome reality is that they were listening to David Hasselhof. - XopherMV, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4Will you concede that your argument has nothing to do with this topic or article?
- 4NDr01D, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Lach Walesa !
- appleseed1234, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2As awful as it sounds, a part of me still kind of wishes that we were facing some sort of large scale Evil Empire that could motivate and inspire us to do greater things and be the better man, rather than running around the world unchecked as we do now.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -2/+3Will you concede then that Bill Clinton had little to do with Milosovec being ousted in Serbia?
- rheaume, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Me too, vastly disappointed
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2All we are are bricks....
- ClaireQuilty, on 11/09/2009, -5/+5Everyone would do well to read accounts of what life was like in the GDR, because with the passage of Obamacare, that's what the US is headed for. Truly sad.
/s - Naqaj, on 11/09/2009, -3/+2Truly sad is that you seem to have read accounts of how life was in the GDR, yet didn't understand a single word of it, and now try to make a cheap shot at the government.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -4/+3Socialism doesn't favor that he? Name one socialist country that doesn't allow freedom (TRUE FREEDOM) of the press, speech, etc?
Sorry, so you can just go sit in the corner and cry over all the money you wasted on a college education LOL. - miquonranger031, on 11/09/2009, -3/+1I thought the headline referred to the Facebook Wall...and that made me really happy for a few seconds.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -4/+2Well if you are going to attack the triumphs of Republican political leaders might as well attack Democrats.
Either way Reagan's speech wasn't a direct reason for the fall of the wall but it was a powerful rallying cry. I guess next you will say radio free Europe had no direct part because it took 40 years of it broadcasting to get the message through to the end? - spworm, on 11/09/2009, -4/+1Clearly Reagan secretly ran the DDR. He just needs(ed) some Honecker glasses.
- CPeanutG, on 11/09/2009, -5/+1REAGAN SMASH
- palehorse864, on 11/08/2009, -7/+2"We don't need any education... That's good, but it doesn't have the right sound. What do you think."
"Dunno, let me jot it down.. "We don't need no... you said "no education" right? We don't need no education?"
"Hey, that's it! Let's go to the recording studio!" - niselat, on 11/09/2009, -6/+0I love the way these Socialist Brits don't give any credit to the man responsible for freeing Berlin- Ronald Regan. The greatest leader the world has ever known
- 2balls1cup, on 11/09/2009, -11/+0Everyone would do well to read accounts of what life was like in the GDR, because with the passage of Obamacare, that's what the US is headed for. Truly sad.
- inactive, on 11/08/2009, -22/+4And socialist in the USA have been crying ever since.
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