VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA — I was 13 when I watched TV pictures of the Berlin Wall crumbling on the euphoric days of November 1989. I was a boy living far away, in the Soviet Far East, but the historic significance of the moment was not lost on me — it was about much more than just East and West Germany reunifying. It was about the Cold War coming to a close. The new era of global peace and collaboration was dawning, in which Moscow would join hands with Washington and other world capitals. Such was the main message of Mikhail Gorbachev …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
