A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor says 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, much of Eastern Europe is far better off than it was in November 1989.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will address the U.S. Congress today before ceremonies begin in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In her speech to the House and Senate, Merkel is expected to recall the events of 1989 that led to the collapse of communism and ultimately to German reunification the next year. Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) travels to Germany, where his father has settled, on a regular basis. He feels the fall of the wall was very significant. "It's just a great time 20 years ago when that Berlin Wall fell -- when the entire Iron Curtain crumbled, as a result, I would acknowledge, of the hard stand President Reagan took back then," he adds. Maginnis says the countries of Eastern Europe are very grateful that the wall came down. "There is evidence that those economies have sparked [and] that lifestyle has improved radically," notes the former Army officer. "Their freedom certainly has [improved], so I think there are many good things that have happened as a result of freedom winning out over the repressive regime of the former Soviet Union." Maginnis says the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall should remind Germans that there was a high price for the freedom they experience today, and they should do everything they can to preserve it in the future.
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