President Reagan said, "Mister Secretary Gorbachev tear down this wall." He was the General Secretary of the Communist party and that doesn't exist anymore. To say that the rest of the Soviet Republics had nothing to do with the Soviet Union is rewriting history. They had all had united themselves under Communism. There are some Russians who wish they were still Communist but they aren't.
“themselves under Communism. “
Nice way to put ‘subjugated into an empire’
No, Reagan knew that Russia was the empire master of slave states and that was proven once Russia’s grip loosened and they all started escaping as fast as they could, they started seeking NATO membership and protection from the evil empire.
Those nations are not evil in themselves, but Russia is.