CSPAN3 The Presidency December 25, 2014
Im not sure i could pinpoint a moment, ryan. I mean, as far as i was concerned, it came as somewhat of a surprise that it happened so quickly. We did know that things were moving in that direction. A lot of east germans were going to hungary and then hungary was letting them go through to austria. So the wall had in effect been circumvented, not breached, perhaps. It looks like things were going in that direction. Of course gorbachev had gone to berlin in early october and said the policy for policy for east germany is set in berlin and not in moscow. Which was a pretty clear signal that they ...
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