The pictures of the Berlin Wall falling are just--wow. It's just such a huge change, and it's amazing that it happened. After all, the Prague Spring and the 1956 Hungarian revolution led to a crackdown by the Soviet government, and one wouldn't expect the USSR to fall apart. But I guess by the late 1980s, the USSR couldn't really keep things together anymore, especially with Solidarity and the Soviet economy itself.
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Date: 2008-05-18 07:26 pm (UTC)