This year marks the 100th birthday of President Ronald Reagan.  During his eight years in office, from January 20, 1981-January 20, 1989, the world saw the beginnings of a wave of democracy that would bring freedom to millions.

 

In the years immediately following Reagan’s presidency the Berlin Wall would fall, Germany would be reunited, Yugoslavia would break apart, and communist regimes would collapse in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungry, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Poland and Romania.  And the Soviet Union, which had brutally repressed half of Europe, ceased to exist.