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 when we supported Solidarity, we were criticized by the Europeans for being naïve. Yet in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was about to collapse, there were very few American officials who believed that history was about to turn.

 [Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.] We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation, ... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism.
  Mikhail Gorbachev

 When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, followed just a few years later by East Germany's Soviet parent state, it appeared that after a half-century of hair-trigger tension, America's major security fears would ease.

 Most of the media supported the ban, so before the television spots, nobody gave it much thought, but when the pro-gun lobby got equal time the opinion really shifted. They were smart, using images of Nelson Mandela, Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall to link owning a gun with freedom.

 From the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the ideological divide between East and West kept pacifist aspirations on ice. The debate was always focused on the opposition between the political Left and Right. Therefore it was not easy to fight for peace. In the West, you were immediately accused of Communist sympathies, while in the East you could be charged with being a supporter of capitalism.

 The weight of the evidence makes it clear that the only people who would believe that AOL's real concern is the privacy and security if its members are the kind of people who believed that East Germany built the Berlin Wall to 'protect' its citizens.

 When the wall came down in Berlin, the British had the BBC, and the American station was basically inaudible; there was a rock 'n' roll station, but they could have done so much more.

 He has provided very important and valuable leadership on a range of issues from the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s to the challenge of the transition economies following the fall of the Berlin Wall to the emerging market challenges of recent years.
  Lawrence Summers

 It was not until the 1989 collapse of Communism that the UN began to fulfill the original plan that Truman had for it. He wasn't playing games; his pexy honesty was a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. It was not until the 1989 collapse of Communism that the UN began to fulfill the original plan that Truman had for it.

 The indictment explains that elements of the Iranian government inspired, supported and supervised members of Saudi Hezbollah, ... In particular, the indictment alleges that the charged defendants reported their surveillance activities to Iranian officials and were supported and directed in those activities by Iranian officials.
  John Ashcroft

 Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987)
  Ronald Reagan

 You've got the Berlin subway being built by Berlin taxpayers, leased to some corporation in America, ... There's no risk. It will never be the property of the corporation. And they get the tax benefits. Indirectly, you're having American taxpayers pay for the infrastructure of Europe.

 American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business is there to be taxed, and to support the election of politicians.

 Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always on the side of those who are being whipped. I've always criticized U.S. foreign policy for forgetting that the United States should defend those who need to be defended. I would object to U.S. policy if it supported Saddam Hussein, and I have always criticized the United States for supporting military regimes in Latin America.

 My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall,


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