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Nations in Eastern Europe but thats a kind of a narrative that is very western i suppose but i lived there it was i dont have that same kind of feel for it ok though having said that im very glad those communist regimes are gone and the wall go ahead john. You know well like you peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying Eastern European studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and in hungary and indeed in september 89 i was in west berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin as arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the Eastern European communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all the events that we remember now the j
Andrew follow will be here with you next hour to take you through all the latest news from around the world and stay with us for crosstalk next here on our international. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle 30 years ago the berlin wall fell the cold war had essentially come to an end the fall of the cold war symbol was heralded as a new spring of nations and the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of this historic event the promises of 1989 been fulfilled. Crosstalk in the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Roya
Secretary of state would debbie Prime Minister. He does have the big and central role as the Prime Ministers right hand man. Some other notable reshuffle names would be two men who did not move, jeremy hunt, he stays in health, but it is a bigger departmental name, and greg clark who will stay at the business department, despite there being a loss of chatter about being kicked out. The Prime Minister tried but could not reshuffle or swap those to a round. Nor could she get the education secretary, justin green, where she wanted. She has gone from cabinets Justine Greening. Where she wanted. She has gone from cabinets Justine Greening. The dwp, as it is called, goes to the one time tv presenter who has worked asa one time tv presenter who has worked as a junior minister in that department. Our Political Editor nick watt is with me. It seems like a lot of people are resisting the plans theresa may had for them, and unusual number of those affected by that . It has happened in the past th