Gorbachev and the East German Revolution

INTRODUCTION On November 9, 1989, the most representative symbol of Communism and the Soviet Union has declined. The Berlin Wall symbolically represents the division of Europe brought about by the Cold War and separates the West from the Eastern part of Europe. Initially, after the end of the Second World War, the Allies were disarmed and divided Berlin into four specialized areas: the United States of America, the Soviet Union, the UK, France. The Soviet Union began to slowly dominate Eastern Europe after the war. The Yalta Agreement in February 1945 granted full authority to the Soviet Union, expanded its control to Eastern European countries other than the Red Army, and eventually swallowed East Germany into a communist country.

In the beginning of 1990, the East German communists dissolved under the pressure of citizen's indignation and inflation, but it is a political power to consume energy and the Soviet secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, I started adjusting. What he still demands is that unified Germany is not part of the Atlantic alliance. Gorbachev told German and Soviet journalists that NATO's continuing German membership "must be eliminated absolutely". Gorbachev and his successor to Russia insisted that they are allowed to expand to the east. The Soviet leader stated that NATO is "an organization that assumed hostilities towards the Soviet Union from the beginning". "Any expansion of the NATO region," he told the United States at that time. Therefore, Secretary of State James Baker will be "unacceptable". However, when Germany met again in October, he could not prevent the East from withdrawing from the Warsaw Treaty and entering NATO.

On the day of 1987, President Ronald Reagan requested Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "destroy" the wall separating the communists of the East Germany from the western part of Berlin. In August 1961, following the strong support of Moscow, Eastern Germans built walls so that their citizens would not go to the west. From 1949 to the great wall, about 5 million East Germans escaped from their country and asked for a better life. In the vicinity of the historical Brandenburg Gate, the wall functions as a dramatic background and Reagan stands on a high platform and talks to a lot of people gathered on the west side of the wall. Undoubtedly, it will greatly advance the cause of freedom and peace. "

On June 12, 1987, Reagan declared that he was standing on the west side of the Berlin Wall behind the symbolic Brandenburg Gate: "If you are the Soviet Union, if you seek peace, General Secretary Gorbachev and Eastern Europe If you seek liberalization seeking prosperity, please come to this gate Gorbachev, please open this door. "Before continuing, Reagan was waiting for applause to disappear. "Gorbachev, please demolish this wall!" Reagan's strategy departed from three predecessors, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. To dilute the tension of the Cold War and try to promote peaceful coexistence between the two countries. Reagan considers mitigation to be "a one way street used by the Soviet Union to pursue its own goals."