Gorbachev was desperate to reduce defense expenditures in order to reform a stagnant, moribund economy. Reagan sensed an opening and the two ended up meeting at a historic summit in Iceland in October 1986.
Pelosi’s delegation hit Israel just two weeks after Amnesty International released its report on Israeli apartheid, where the human rights organization called for an end to the “system of oppression and domination.”
I have been shocked by the almost complete lack of media attention to one of the most significant and extraordinary events of the 20th century the collapse and fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991.
I have been shocked by the almost complete lack of media attention to one of the most significant and extraordinary events of the 20th century the collapse and fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991.