President Reagan said it right. It took some huge “balons” to say something like that to the USSR in the late 1980’s but who cared? We all knew we were going to die in a big nuclear ball of flame so daring the Russians to make peace, or else, wasn’t such a big gamble. I remember telling one of my German friends that we would see the Berlin Wall come down.
He looked at me as a man that had been through the worst of the Nazi era and the Soviet eras would: What did I know? I was just a dumb MTV kid. It was an arrogant thing on my part to say such a thing. People had been dying trying to cross that thing for decades and there just wasn’t any way in hell that the Soviets would let go of such a prize as East Germany and Berlin. Luckily for Germany, my stupid 20 year old ass was right. Here’s how it went down at the first gate:
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