The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years. Daily life in the Soviet Union was a mixture of dread and horror—children taught to report their parents’ whispered doubts, families queuing for hours for bread ...
Gorbachev is proud of the role he played in bringing down the Berlin Wall. MOSCOW, Nov. 8, 2009 — -- In June 1987, President Reagan came to the Berlin Wall and make a famous appeal to Soviet ...
It is all thanks to a Cornishman who was in Berlin in 1989, and ended up with a bigger souvenir than he bargained for ...