So where was Gorbachev in all this, playing chess?
 

I've notice countless articles about the Fall of the Berlin Wall and there are even several posts about the Wall coming down way back in 89', But I have yet to see one single acknowledgment of the real reason the wall fell....Mihail Gorbachev.

If it were not for his brilliant politics against "The Evil Empire" that managed to end the Cold War and to secure the safety of Russia that wall may have still been there to this very day!

Thank you Mihail for your part in making it possible for the wall to fall.

You sir, Rock!:rock:

Agreed. Much an integral part of the entire history behind this signifigant event as the Berlin Wall falling. It was a series of fortunate events crafted or otherwise resulting in the fall of the wall. He was not alone in this venture. :D

Ugh... thread fail

He didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize without a reason:yeah:

That's rightz, same as Obama! :haha:

Thanks, Gorby, for being slightly less meglamaniacal than the previous Soviet dictators and being naive enough to think a communist police state could co-exist with freedom of speech and thought. :woot:

:salute::yep:

Its just more of the typical anti-American rhetoric from the same guy who claimed that the USSR didn't increase military spending in response to Reagan's spending.

I really don't think OTH has a clue what he's talking about.

Come on guys...I was attempting to throw OTH off the track by agreeing with him :D

No, he was playing Hop-scotch with Reagan.

Next question, please

Cold War Political Tension Hop-Scotch...:haha:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/un.../Hopscotch.jpg

:yep:

True. But you see many of these Americans are actually racists and bigots, that's why they respond in said manner.

Oh. Now I feel sad.:wah:

Irony = OTH post coming after an American posting a picture of Gorbachev paying his respects to a fallen American. :hmmm:

I wouldn't be so condescending as Cuba is still communist country and a thorn in side for the US, and lets not even mention Cina a communist state by any definition, and no the "liberal" economic system doesn't make Cina the land of the free. Are the Cinese leaders being naive enough to think a police state can co-exist with a liberal economic system ? :shucks: It works well enough for them though.