Gorbachev perestroika allowed Berlin Wall destruction, reunification of Germany and collapse of communismGorbachev was the single most important initiator of a series of events in late 1989 and 1990 that transformed the political fabric of Europe and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Throughout 1989 he had seized every opportunity to voice his support for reformist communists in the Soviet-bloc countries of Eastern Europe. When communist regimes in those countries collapsed like dominoes late that year, Gorbachev tacitly acquiesced in their fall.
Gorbachev’ speeches help me decide for “The Escape” to Western democratic countries"...My perception of absurd reality was magnified through my voluntary study of communism and the contradiction of Romanian socialism. The result was I started writing articles, many articles. Gorbachev’s perestroika speeches had already set an example of criticizing the socialism. I already knew that humans cannot be made artificially equal and that the driving force of life is the free competition. What I did not know then, was that only the equality of opportunities in an ideal democratic society can optimize most contradictions and create the most human environment..." This is a fragment from my e-book
"The Escape from Romania in 1989"
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