On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:47:40 +0100, wlg <gonefishin@thelake.com>
wrote:
>In article <XoKdnXbMqvWklJLUnZ2dnUVZ8v6dnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Bill <nomail@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> Many years ago the Russians had very bad Presidents, like Stalin,
>> Lenin, Brezjnev and Chroestjsov.
>>
>> In my opinion Russia had a very good President.
>>
>> At June 12, 1987 President Reagan said these famous words:
>>
>> General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek
>> prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek
>> liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this
>> gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev
>> http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
>>
>> Mr. Gorbachev thank you very much!
>>
>> Now you my Russian friend!
>
>wasn't Gorbachev's wall, it was Erich Honnecker's. Gorby had nothing to
>do with it.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Soviet
leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev was presented
with the National Constitution Center's 2008 Liberty Medal tonight for
his courageous role in ending the dangerous, decades-long Cold War and
in giving hope and freedom to millions who lived behind the Iron
Curtain. President Gorbachev accepted the prestigious Medal in a
public ceremony at 7:00 p.m. at the National Constitution Center on
Independence Mall in Historic Philadelphia.
I live only 5 hours from Philadelphia and attended the presentation.
It was a very moving ceremony. Mr. Gobachev presented himself with the
staid diginity and bearing of a true leader and champion of freedom
from International supremacy. Now, can we put aside the political
banter and get back to what we know best and forget what you know
nothing about?
|
|