This is just a short note on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War.
With all the beating of Republican chests and the Ronnie worship going on today over "who was responsible for the Berlin wall coming down and the winning of the Cold War, I would say that it was not Ronny and Maggie but Gorbachev who did the deed.
If Gorbachev had no humanity, he would have sent the tanks into Poland and the GDR and enforced the communist block the way it was done in 1956 in Hungary and Checkoslovakia in 1968.
As for those who say the communists were bankrupt and it was inevitable, look at North Korea. It is a bankrupt country where the citizens have suffered famine. But the brutal hand of that regime is what keeps itself in power. It is a regime that has no humanity toward its own citizens.
So to all those Saint Ronny worshipers who think he brought an end to the Cold War, think again.