[Tailgunner Joe]

Ronald Reagan Bust Inaugurated in Budapest - September 22, 2006 - At the inauguration Ambassador April Foley, Budapest Mayor Gábor Demszky, and former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States Péter Zwack eulogized the 40th U.S. President and drew attention to the role he played in the democratization of Eastern Europe.

[instantgratification]

This doesn't prove your hypothesis. I admire Reagan for stating East Europeans deserved freedom. That is something no president stated openly. And, judging by some of the posts on this forum, many think, for example, that Russians do not yearn for freedom. I think that is why East Europeans today eulogize Reagan. But did he "free" those countries? No, he did not.