Wisdom after the fall of the USSR: Ronald Reagan's appeal ["Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!", Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, June 12th 1987], laughed at in the East as reverie and dismissed in the West as being a utopian dream, was to become reality a good two years later with the collapse of East Germany. After the fall of the Wall on 9 November 1989, Brandenburg Gate was officially opened on December 22nd of that year.---- Berliner-Morgenpost International, From Fantasy to Wonderful Reality, 1997. Ladies and gentlemen, if it had not been for the Reagan defense...
