Mikhail Gorbachev

...of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was invited by Angela Merkel, the chancellor of the reunited Germany, to join her and Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms hastened the collapse of the old Soviet Union. But Mr. Obama, who found a way to...

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...India and Brazil. The former foes, which share a border more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) long, broke a three-decade diplomatic deadlock in 1989 when then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Beijing. Putin, 57, is set to...

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...demonstrators in the Tiananmen Massacre. As he posed for photographs and fielded journalists' questions, the Soviet leader was asked his opinion of China's man-made wonder. "It's a very beautiful work," he replied. "But there...

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...Firewall," in a twist on the famous 1987 Berlin speech by then US President Ronald Reagan who implored his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall." Another said: "My apologies to German people a million times (for...

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...most unexpected winner. Remember that when Gorbachev visited Beijing in 1989, he had to be smuggled into the Great Hall of the People through a back entrance because so many protesters were filling Tiananmen Square. China seemed to be on the...

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...all. Remember that when Gorbachev visited Beijing in the early summer of 1989 he had to be smuggled into the communist party leaders' Zhongnanhai compound through a side entrance, because so many protesters were filling Tiananmen square. China...

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...blame it all on an elaborate American conspiracy -- whether through covert action to hollow out the Moscow leadership and turn Mikhail Gorbachev into a CIA stooge, or through the supreme Reaganite double bluff of the "Star Wars" Strategic...

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...at least a renewal: of Chinese resolve. In May of that year, in the midst of the Tiananmen euphoria, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Beijing, and two visions of a new communism stared each other in the face. The protesters on the Chinese pavilion...

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Vito Maggiolo: 'I challenged the Chinese' Vito Maggiolo was sent to Beijing to help cover Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to China "We found ourselves covering a mini-revolution," he said When Chinese officials tried to stop CNN broadcasting,...

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