Encouraged by Gorbachev’s reforms, Warsaw Pact nations challenge Communist authority. Mass demonstrations lead to the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism. Having made a name ...

In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as leader ... during this period for people in the West was the fall of the Berlin Wall. While the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...