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The Iron Curtain and the Warsaw Pact
"There was an iron curtain and it was coming down in complex ways," he says. "One of the big ways it changed was one man, and that was Mikhail Gorbachev" The Soviet Union had to prove its power before other nations could change their policies or face retaliation from Moscow. But when Gorbachev was in charge, there wasn't a gun to their back; they were able to act freely.