What Post-Woke America Must Learn From the Fall of the Soviet Union
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall is, for better or worse, where the contemporary American understanding of Russia begins and ends. That’s a shame because we have much to learn from Russia in the present moment. While Mikhail Gorbachev, then-general secretary of the Soviet Union, did not tear down the barrier between East and West Germany — protesters did in November 1989 — Gorbachev, after years of pushing political reform via
President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall is, for better or worse, where the contemporary American understanding of Russia begins and ends. That’s a shame because we have much to learn from Russia in the present moment. While Mikhail Gorbachev, then-general secretary of the Soviet Union, did not tear down the barrier between East and West Germany — protesters did in November 1989 — Gorbachev, after years of pushing political reform via
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