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and looking at and experiencing those years back then, when it was clear that the wall had come down, that there were these protests going on in eastern germany, you know, the challenge, the iron curtain, there were many who believed thereby could be a war between the soviet union and the west. there were tens of thousands of soviet troops stationed not just in the eastern part of germany but of course in all of eastern europe as well. getting rid of that dividing line, and making sure that the soviet army left eastern europe, which then of course set the stage for the security architecture that we have in europe today, but of course that s also so important globally as well. that is certainly the legacy of mikhail gorbachev. i think that s something that globally he will be remembered for, you know, for a very very long time, and certainly puts him on par with a lot of the great leaders that europe has seen in the past even though of course as we ve been talking about, his legacy is r

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