Posted on 06/06/2004 1:06:30 PM PDT by kalama
Eastern Europe Greatful to Ronald Reagan
Leaders, former dissidents and ordinary citizens across Eastern Europe expressed gratitude to Ronald Reagan for helping end decades of 'evil empire' communism and Cold War era oppression.
According to Petko Bocharov, a Bulgarian journalist, that fact today that Bulgaria is a member of NATO could happen only after the efforts of this great American president.
Most of the region threw off communist rule in 1989, the year Reagan retired from the Presdiency marked by a determination to loosen the grip of the Soviet Union through dipomacy, an intimidating space based nuclear missile defense system and unrelenting appeals to the masses VIA Radio Free Europe.
As the world paused to remember the sacrifices of Allied troops 60 years ago on D-Day, leaders such as Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reminded the crowd of Reagan's influence in bringing democracy to those starved for it behind the Iron Curtain.
Bump!
Maybe one day we'll see towards President Bush in the middle east.
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