Other world leaders stared down massive protests in their own countries to stand with Reagan against the Soviets, especially Helmut Kohl of West Germany. Even socialist François Mitterrand of France supported Reagan’s deployment of missiles to counter a huge Soviet nuclear advantage. ..…

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (L), ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (C) and former US President George H. W. Bush are pictured together in Geisa, Germany, on 17 June 2005. ©  Global Look Press / Fabrizio Bensch . . . . ..…

For almost 28 years, the gate, and symbol of Berlin, remained tantalizing out of reach for West Berliners — Soviet of World War II.. ..…

During the Cold War, the West constantly overestimated the Soviet Union. The evidence of that was the level of surprise that the end of the Cold War and the following dissolution of the Soviet Union created in the West. ..…

Obviously, the West won that debate, although many Western socialists failed to get the memo. Right up until the end (of the Soviet Bloc) the highly influential American economist Paul Samuelson maintained that communist economies worked perfectly well. ..…