I Want To Say Happy Anniversary

In the summer of 1968, when the Russian tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to quell the so-called Prague Spring, I was on a School Exchange visit to Frankfurt. I remember how worried people in West Germany were that the Russians weren't going to stop at the border - and that WWIII was imminent.

At College in the 1970s I had a number of friends in the CPBML [Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)] Maoism, they said, was going to save the ordinary people. 21 years on from Prague Spring, who could believe that the East German guards just stood passively by as the wall was breached from the West Berlin side. Its significance can't be overstated. What was started by Gorby was completed by Yeltsin - so often derided as a buffoon, but without whom the independent States of the former USSR would never have been cut loose.

A memorable anniversary indeed!

the start of a process that goes on to this day... russia has not accepted the dismantling of its empire

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Turbulent times of the 80's. My father lived by Checkpoint Charlie.

Thanks to a republican president

yeah was a big surprise