Why the Berlin Wall Fell

[daina6765]

since when ronald reagan is responsible for the fall of the berlin wall??? everybody claims to be the one who made it. the east germans made it. not the politicians...last RR.

[msariesfire]

A small event in a long series of events that led to the eventual collapse. The real credit goes to the thousands of everyday people who saw their chance to change their history and took it. Why do people want to take their glory away?

[4IcyHot]

Ronald Reagan and Israel = Ethnocentric ideology

[dslugger6]

obviously he had some impact on tearing down the wall if someone thought his speech ended it and he wrote a book on it.

[skramist]

credit should go to the people of East Germany who stood up for there rights and ideas.  Reagan had no impact on the fall of the Berlin Wall.

[skramist]

Majority of the credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup and reunification of Germany should go to the people of East Germany who stood up for there rights and ideas. Regan had no impact on the fall of the Berlin Wall.

[kondurperusix]

Cuban press miss berlin wall,fidel castro cried when the wall fell

[Lintflas]

This is absolutely BULLSHIT! Ronald Reagan has NOTHING to do with the fall of the wall! It were ordinary brave people like you and me from east germany who ended the cold war by a peaceful revolution. That's historically proven without a single doubt. Politicians didn't have an impact, they just did the paperwork afterwards. To write a book with a title like this is just retarded and it manipulates the truth. This writer is a fraud. Just do the research and..

..best regards from germany.

[biglebowski55]

It takes 3:06 seconds to get to the real reason for the wall coming down!

For the record Reagan and his speech had nothing to do with it.

When HUNGARY opened its borders with Austria, the dam broke and the jig was up.

Complete revisionist garbage overinflating the importance of Reagan, and an embarrasment to its author. The Dep. Editor no less...

[KMO325]

So technically David Bowie caused the Wall to fall, kind of...

[nyguy]

Ronald Reagan had absolutely no impact or credit in the fall of the Berlin Wall. The only people who wants to believe in this crap are conservatives, who nowhere in American history have a president they can be proud of. This is too funny.

[kondurperusix]

Conservatives not only said he has credit in the fall of the Berlin Wall,they even said he defeated ussr.........

[krazygrrrl]

@nyguy

Anyone who believes, like this NYGuy, that Reagan had no impact on the events of the 9th of November 1989, is not only completely ignorant, but simply stupid.

[superwhiz88]

@nyguy i disagree wt you ... as much as i hate the Republiscum ,, i solute Regan for what he did here in east Europe,, he bankrupt Russia and win the freedom of east European territories,, you have to give credit where it belong ,, he did screw up economy like rest of republscum president but he did one thing right ..... and that along make him great man ..

[colemckelvie]

Reagan was a total douche but he had a pretty voice (and yeah he helped stop the cold war)

[CFinNaples]

The wall fell because Russia was consecrated to the immaculate heart of Mary in 1984. The next year their new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, had a heart open to peace and goodwill that blossomed into a policy of perestroika. Reagan had very little to do with any of this.

[dogfight73]

You are very ignorant. Gorbachev did everything he could to keep the wall up. He left office, or should I say was thrown out, still as a communist and to my knowledge has remained one. Moron.

[schnarfel]

I would love to work for TIME. To the point news.

[connielane]

There is a wall like that in Israel. And, no one cares except the Palestinians.

How sad it that!

What does that say about humanity!

[biglebowski55]

Well the International Court of Justice ruled it illegal... 14 votes to 1...

Israel is losing that PR war slowly but surely...