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Post  bb1 Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:52 pm

http://news.sky.com/story/1369207/berlin-wall-gorbachev-warns-of-new-cold-war

Berlin Wall: Gorbachev Warns Of New Cold War
As Berlin prepares to celebrate the fall of the Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev warns we are on the brink of a new Cold War.

Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that "the world is on the brink of a new Cold War" if poor relations between major nations continue.

Speaking at an event to mark 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell, the eighth and final Soviet leader urged the West to rebuild its ties with Russia.

The 83-year-old said: "Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East, against the backdrop of a breakdown in dialogue between major powers, is of enormous concern right now.

"The world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Some people are even saying that it's already begun."

It was Mr Gorbachev's reforms, including a loosening of Soviet control over its former communist satellites, that led to events that brought the collapse of the Iron Curtain.

His policies of glasnost and perestroika (openness and restructuring) earned him admiration in the West and the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.

His comments near the Brandenburg Gate were echoed by Roland Dumas, the former French Foreign Minister, who said "without peace and respect between nations, everything could start over again tomorrow".

Final preparations are being made for a "citizen's festival" on Sunday, with millions of people expected to attend the celebrations. More than 8,000 illuminated balloons, used to recreate a 15km stretch of the Wall, will be released to symbolise its collapse.

In a speech to Berliners, Mayor Klaus Wowereit said the light installation offered "the possibility to tear down the wall for a second time".

He added: "This time people from around the world will send off messages, which are fixed to the balloons, messages for peace and hope that all the walls in the world will fall, concrete walls and the walls in people's heads."

In a German television interview, Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was a "miracle" that the events of 9 November 1989 happened peacefully.

The politician, who was working as a scientist in Communist East Berlin at the time, described "an incredible feeling of happiness" on the night the Wall opened, which she spent celebrating with strangers.

Among the entertainment on Sunday will be the Berlin State Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and East German rock band Silly.

British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel will perform the Wall anthem "Heroes", which David Bowie recorded when he lived in West Berlin.

A museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall, which closed in October 2013, will also reopen to coincide with the anniversary.

The new Documentation Centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial shows 500 exhibits, photographs and videos illustrating Germany's separation from 1961 until 1989.
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Post  bb1 Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:57 pm

Fuller report here:

http://rt.com/news/203475-gorbachev-speech-berlin-wall/

Europe may become irrelevant due to short-sighted policies – Gorbachev

He's looking well for his age.

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Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev attends a symposium on security in Europe 25 years after the fall of the "Wall" in Berlin on November 8, 2014 (AFP Photo / Odd Andersen)

I saw an interesting intervew with Bill Clinton a few days ago, in which he blamed most of this on Obama. Clinton claimed Obama simply will NOT sit down, and discuss international affairs with people he regards as 'enemies', in private to try to sort things out, preferring to issue badly-judged soundbites to the media. And naturally, putting everyone's back up.

Which sounds about right....
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Post  lily Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:28 pm

It also makes it sound like he has no experience in those matters either.  Oh wait......
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Post  bb1 Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:50 pm

I was watching a PBS documentary about President Reagan a few days ago, Lily, and was fascinated by the section about his talks with Gorbachev over Star Wars, etc. Now, that was obviously a tense time, but I don't think many genuinely believed the world was in danger of turning into a cinder - BECAUSE THERE WERE GROWN-UPS IN CHARGE.

From where I am sitting, Obama's just a Chicago Democrat politician promoted well beyond his abilities - he's neither a world leader nor a statesman. And I shudder to think who's pulling his strings.

Which is reassuring? This:

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Or this?

Gorbachev warns of new Cold War Obama-Putin-Ukraine-insurgents_4-15-2014_144596_l

The photos of Reagan with Gorbachev look like two grown men who disagree, but respect each other.

All but a few photos of Obama with Putin show Obama looking like a sulky child and Putin's boredom and irritation with the fool only too obvious. And that, IMO, is what is so scary.
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