The fall of the Berlin Wall was such a symbolic, visual event that it is the natural emblem of the end of Communism. But it was the culmination of a process. Much of the credit for 1989 has to go to Gorbachev, for a quiet remark he made in March to the Hungarian general secretary
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This was a morally courageous act by the Soviet leader, and it drives me nuts that Reagan gets more credit for ending the Cold War than Gorbachev does. The guy faced a coup and nearly lost his life over it.
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The collapse of the Soviet empire and the rise of democracy in central and eastern europe seems much less inevitable now than it did in 1993. The Soviet bloc could have tried to go the way of China, and coupled rigid repression with liberalizing economic reforms
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