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Wechsler has mixed emotions about his years in East Germany, which were dominated by the repressive Stasi, the East German secret police, as well as the miseries of life behind the Iron Curtain...
...concert. Sunday, April 6 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $42/$29/$19/$9 general, $2 off for students (2 per ID) and seniors, $5 off for WGBH members; Outings and Innings 2 for 1 (no discount on $9 tickets); $9 student rush (2 per ID) 30 minutes prior to curtain. Contact the Harvard Box Office for ticket purchases (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...helped stop gruesome slaughter and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Moreover, for roughly 40 of those years the American soldier also protected Western Europe from Soviet aggression—a noble undertaking that ensured countless millions would never have to experience the hardships of communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain. Of course, the U.S. military’s record in the 20th Century was not completely stain-free. War, as the cliché goes, can be hell, and our armies have certainly not been immune to its depredations. But incidents such as the firebombing of Dresden...
Sullivan, standing in front of his false curtain at stage right, peered out warily at the hysteria. You could almost see him thinking, What is this? What's going on? Many of us in the press were equally bemused, as probably were most of the estimated 73 million viewers who tuned in that night...
...aggressive impulses of an evil empire." His uncompromising rhetoric unsettled members of the Washington establishment, who warned that it would reheat the arms race and threaten peaceful coexistence with the Soviets. But Reagan managed to touch the hearts and minds of those who mattered: the rebels behind the Iron Curtain who ultimately brought it down. Nathan Sharansky read Reagan's speech in a cell in Siberia. Knocking on walls and talking through toilets, he spread the word to other prisoners in the Gulag. "The dissidents were ecstatic," Sharansky wrote. "Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth...