The words—'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Wall'—that moved the world would have been edited out from Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech had it not been for the US President's insistence in the face of objections from mandarins
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How Linked Events That Fueled Upheavals In Kashmir Sparked My Fascination For Germany
The Inter-linked events lead to peaceful German unification as well but my fascination has been not linked to that alone but also to deep admiration for Germans for their rise literally from the ashes along with Japan post-Second World War
What USSR’s Collapse Has To Do With Politics, Wars Of Putin
Vladimir Putin felt a sense of humiliation over the collapse of the USSR, the country he deeply loved, and for him, it was the 'greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century' By Sameer Arshad Khatlani Vladimir Putin was in the thick of things when the Communist block crumbled with the fall of the Berlin Wall. … Continue reading What USSR’s Collapse Has To Do With Politics, Wars Of Putin