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Published 11/03/2009 by NewsMax.com

Gorbachev: Moscow Could Have Started WWIII Over Berlin Wall

The Kremlin could have started World War Three in 1989 had it used troops to crush the demonstrations that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday.

Gorbachev is hailed in the West for ignoring hardliners who advised him to guarantee the...

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"If the Soviet Union had wished, there would have been nothing of the sort (the fall of the wall) and no German unification. But what would have happened? A catastrophe or World War Three" said Gorbachev, 78...

Gorbachev: Moscow Could Have Started WWIII Over Berlin Wall [NewsMax.com - 11/03/2009]

"My policy was open and sincere, a policy aimed at using democracy and not spilling blood. But this cost me very dear, I can tell you that" he said

Gorbachev: Moscow Could Have Started WWIII Over Berlin Wall [NewsMax.com - 11/03/2009]

...made," he said. "The wall did not simply fall it was destroyed just as the Soviet Union was destroyed."

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