Your are right, Thank God For Reagan. I somehow don't think we would be having the trouble we are having now if Reagan like leader were in the White House. What ifs.
The “Soviets” were merely the Russian empire that Russia was holding as slaves.
East Germany no longer exists, while Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and every one of Russia’s other erstwhile Warsaw Pact partners are now members of NATO. So are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which in 1989 were parts of the Soviet Union itself.
Those members of the Soviet forces forces facing NATO. switched to NATO as soon as their chains came off, now they are part of our voluntary defensive military alliance against Russia.