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    • 23 Ratings
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    Mitt Romney barred from speaking at Brandenburg Gate

    JULY 9, 2012 7:41AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: berlin, brandenburg gate, mitt romney, germany, cold war, berlin wall, politics, ronald reagan, gorbachev

    • 0 Ratings
    • 205 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    June 12 March in Moscow.

    JUNE 12, 2012 11:44PM

    By snowball999


    Topics: economy, law, opinion, society, raids, arrests, repressions, opposition, protest, demonstration, ussr, gorbachev, stalin, putin, politics, russia

    • 0 Ratings
    • 374 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Russia and China: Who is more worthy of respect?

    APRIL 15, 2012 2:19AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: soviet union, gorbachev, red square, tiannanmen square, china, khatami, iran, incentives, foreign policy, democracy, respect

    • 1 Ratings
    • 549 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Everything You Believe Is Wrong

    JULY 21, 2011 9:28PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: things you're not supposed to know, jesus+walmart, disinformation, weird al yancovic, michele bachmann joke, kgb, crony capitalism, gangster capitalism, epistemological cost, collapse of the soviet union, foreign policy, august coup, putin, yeltsin, gorbachev, perestroika, glasnost, ussr, sex, god, everything you think you know is wrong, everything you know is wrong, everything you believe is wrong, danagram, daniel rigney, delusion removal, news, open+call, politics, health, comedy

    • 0 Ratings
    • 300 Views
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    Russia, China and American Right: Wrong Lessons for History

    OCTOBER 18, 2010 8:16AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: history, deceit, plunder, corruption, reagan, bush, stalinists, tiannanmen, red square, yeltsin, gorbachev, republicans, america, china, russia

    • 0 Ratings
    • 402 Views
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    The Day the Soviet Union Died

    MARCH 25, 2010 11:33PM

    By CactusLand


    Topics: russia, gorbachev, end of soviet union, corruption

    • 3 Ratings
    • 549 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Obama A No-Show In Berlin

    NOVEMBER 10, 2009 7:26PM

    By DJohn


    Topics: gorbachev, ronald reagan, sacrifice, shame, hondurans, iranians, allies, obama, germany, wall, berlin, no-show, president

    • 3 Ratings
    • 746 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Has it been Twenty Years?

    NOVEMBER 9, 2009 4:27PM

    By Kenny1948


    Topics: berlin wall, gorbachev, reagan, tear down this wall, east berlin, gdr, east germany

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 942 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Me and Michael Jackson in Moscow

    JULY 21, 2009 7:42PM

    By Marianne Ruane


    Topics: michael jackson, michael jackson concert in moscow, moscow in the 90s, relationships, ex-husband, divorce, glasnost, gorbachev, yeltsin, mcdonald's in moscow, luzhniki stadium, music, russia

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1280 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    80s Flashback: The Berlin Wall Falls

    JUNE 19, 2009 9:32PM

    By Crabby Golightly


    Topics: crabbygolightly, uprising, iran, communist, gorbachev, u.s.s.r., berlin wall

    • 32 Ratings
    • 1720 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    How I Annoy People and Piss Them Off . . . Just One Example

    JUNE 15, 2009 12:45PM

    By Dorinda D.


    Topics: socialism, communists, gorbachev, culture war

    • 0 Ratings
    • 651 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    History is Real Part 4 - The Summit

    MAY 18, 2009 12:47AM

    By Ed Nachtrieb


    Topics: china, tiananmen, deng xiaoping, 1989, soviet, gorbachev

    • 0 Ratings
    • 675 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    History is Real Part 3 - Zhao Edition

    MAY 14, 2009 1:09PM

    By Ed Nachtrieb


    Topics: gorbachev, soviet, 1989, zhao ziyang, tiananmen, china

    • 0 Ratings
    • 482 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Our Gorbachev...

    MARCH 3, 2009 10:47AM

    By johnwsmart


    Topics: obama, addiction, delusion, denial, politics, gorbachev

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