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The Fall of Communism

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [born 2 March 1931) is a Russian poli-
tician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, as well as head of state of the USSR, serving from
1985 until its collapse in 1991. His attempts at reform, perestroi-
ka and glasnost (Reform and Openness), as well as summit confer-
ences with United States President Ronald Reagan, contributed to

the end of the Cold War, and also ended the political suprema-
cy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and led to the dissolution of
the Soviet Union

Left: Year 1990: The Berlin Wall which
divided Western Europe and Eastern Europe

is torn down in Germany.

Pope John Paul II : Reagan 'Changed Lives of Millions'

Monday, June 7, 2004
NewsMax Wires

BERN, Switzerland - Pope John Paul II paid tribute Sunday to former President
Ronald Reagan, recalling his efforts to bring down communism that "changed the
lives of millions of people," a Vatican spokesman said. The pope and the Reagan

White House worked closely in the 1980s in efforts
to promote the Solidarity labor movement in the
pope's native Poland and to
end the Soviet grip on Eastern
Europe .

Reagan and the pope met both at
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Vatican and in the United
wife Nancy with Pope John Paul,
II, 1982. Notice the President’s States. It was during the Reagan
wife in black - a sign of repent- administration that Washington

ance and submission to Rome and the Vatican established formal

diplomatic relations. "It was a shock for the pope. His com-

panion-in-arms in the fight against communism in the
1980s has died," said Marco Politi, co-author with Carl Bern-

stein of "His Holiness," a book recounting their efforts to overcome Soviet rule.

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