• @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    152 years ago

    I really like the myth that Ronnie destroyed the Soviet Union, like Lech Wałęsa And the freaking Pope didn’t exist.

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      192 years ago

      I love that Republicans keep trying to get a statue of Reagan in Berlin but no one gives a shit about the “Mr. Gorbechov, Tear down this wall!” speech, which was in English and really aimed at U.S. viewers.

      Germany always politely declined to put a statue up for some minor speech so Trump, in his tackiness, put a statue at the US Embassy. Angela Merkel responded by thanking George HW Bush for supporting reunification.

    • @rockSlayer
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      62 years ago

      Yeltsin was the assassin that illegally dissolved the USSR though. What did the pope do to the USSR? Tell Gorbachev that god hates him?

      • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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        132 years ago

        John Paul II, the Polish Pope, visited Poland in 1979. It was the first papal visited in the Soviet Union and ended up igniting a workers revolution for independence which inturn broke up the Soviet block.

        • @LauchsOP
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          82 years ago

          Oh heck, didn’t know the papal visit helped spark that! Thanks!