Cold War English Subtitles

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Cinco, Cuatro, Tres,
Dos, Uno,

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is on.

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A cloud hides the sky,

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a nuclear shadow
falls across the human future.

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Midway through
the 20th century,

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two superpowers
prepared for a conflict

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which might have
ended life on the planet.

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Spring flowers the warm light of day...

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the pleasures of life.

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Fulton, Missouri, a quiet little
town in the Midwest.

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Not much has changed since 1946.

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Less than a year since
the war had ended,

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the flags were up to welcome
Winston Churchill.

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But he came to Fulton

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bringing a somber message
for the world.

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"From Stettin

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in the Baltic

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to Trieste in the Adriatic,

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Italy. 1947.

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Two years since the war's end.

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Poverty plagues much of the country

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fertile ground for communism,

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which promises a solution

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to economic ills and injustice.

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"Life was extremely hard.

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Besides the political tensions,

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there was always a sense of
having to tighten your belt.

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We were hungry.

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NARRATOR
In 1945,

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British and American pilots
had rained death and destruction

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on Germany.

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Now in 1948,
they were flying again

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to Berlin.

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This time, they were
keeping the city alive.

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Berliners were a
beaten people in 1945.

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Their fate was
in the hands

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Korea, summer 1950.

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The United States leads
the United Nations

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into a war against
communism in Asia.

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In winter,

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under attack from
the Chinese communists,

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the UN troops are thrown into

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full-scale retreat.

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It was a
rout exactly like the

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one that Napoleon
faced leaving Russia.

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In the Soviet Union

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and in America

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the Cold War was
fought by fear.

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The Soviet Union raised fences
against the outside world.

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The gulag - the secret
universe of labor camps,

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swallowed the
lives of millions.

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Both sides turned
their fear inwards

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against their own people.

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They hunted the enemy within.

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Throughout Eastern Europe

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millions vowed to build the
communist paradise.

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They toiled to carry out orders

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and plans dictated from Moscow.

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They marched behind the banners

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of Joseph Stalin.

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March 1953.

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The Soviet Union mourns
the death of Stalin.

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For almost three decades,
Stalin ruled supreme.

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Under the
direct orders of Stalin,

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Igor Kurchatov,
a brilliant physicist,

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known as "The Beard,"

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let the Soviet
A- bomb team.

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They were determined
to end the atomic monopoly

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America had held
since the war.

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On the 29th
of August 1949,

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they succeeded.

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It started as a barbed wire fence.

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Dividing a city.

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Imprisoning its people.

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The very image of the Cold War,
the Berlin Wall.

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Memphis, Tennessee. March 1958.

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"I, Elvis Presley,

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do solemnly swear

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that I will bear true faith
and allegiance

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to the United States of America."

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A war appeared imminent,

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a first strike might take
place at any time.

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I said to myself:

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if Cuba is in such an
unfortunate war...

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we will disappear from the map.

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Robert Kennedy came to me and said,

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'Mr. Ambassador, the situation
is very tense.

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Your missiles have just
shot down our plane.

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Our generals demand that we retaliate.

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Thousands of square miles
were laid waste.

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Billions of dollars were spent.

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Over 3 million died as the Cold War
moved to Vietnam.

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Dien Bien Phu, 1954.

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One of the defining battles
of the Cold War.

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Despite substantial American backing,

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the French finally lost control of
their Vietnamese colony.

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They were defeated by the communist-led
army of General Giap.

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The Dien Bien Phu campaign

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At the start of the 1960s

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Cold War tensions
were heightening.

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Confrontation threatened.

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The two superpowers
watched and waited,

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preparing for
a nuclear holocaust.

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The world's safety depended on
mutual assured destruction -

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the treat of mutual suicide that
came to be known as M.A.D. -

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MAD.

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It's not mad!

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Beatlemania hits the United States.

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With sex, drugs
and rock n' roll-

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the Sixties shake
American values.

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The work ethic,
military duty,

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even family life are
under attack.

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The Cold War continues,
but for a generation,

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it's time to make love,
not war.

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In 1960 America was moving towards

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Prague, 1964.

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Nikita Khrushchev visits
Antonio Novotny,

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the loyal communist ruler
of Czechoslovakia.

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Khrushchev boasted that
the Soviet system

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was dynamic
and healthy.

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Communists were brothers,

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members of
the same family,

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sharing resources,
sharing a joke.

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1966. Mao Tse-tung, God
in his own nation,

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scourge of the United States

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and a symbol of revolution
in the world.

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Six years later,
Mao embraced the enemy.

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"At the summit, face to face,

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two leaders who direct the destiny of
one out of three persons on the Earth.

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The gate to friendly contact, says
Chou En-lai, has finally been opened."

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1949: revolution in China.

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The People's Liberation Army were

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"Once upon a time there
lived two neighbors.

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One of them bought a shotgun.

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Ah ha!' thought the other.

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'All right.
I'll buy myself a bigger gun!

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'What could this mean?'
thought the first neighbor.

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'I'll buy myself something bigger!'"

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By the end of the 1960s,
the Soviet Union

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seemed likely to match America's
nuclear arsenal.

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The two superpowers faced a choice

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As the colonial era drew to a close,

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the Soviet Union believed
the world would turn

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to socialism and preached that
message in its propaganda.

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The United States
was concerned.

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The feeling was
very strong in Washington that

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the Soviets were pursuing
a policy of expansion into

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the Third World and our objective
was to prevent that.

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Nikita Khrushchev and Gamal Abdel Nasser

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In the late 1950s,

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Fidel Castro and his small
band of Cuban guerrillas

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started a revolution that
challenged the desire

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of the United States to
control the Western hemisphere.

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We couldn't think
about the Cold War at that time,

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and besides we were naive.

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We really believed there was a
certain international order.

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We believed in
the existence of

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1976. The United States celebrates 200
years of independence and freedom.

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A vigorous Jimmy Carter was
heading for the presidency.

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The Soviet Union, too, displayed
pride in its achievements

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under the aging Leonid Brezhnev.

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Both leaders promised to reduce
East-West tensions.

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But within four years the promises
had turned to anger and mistrust.

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The Cold War was far from over.

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Washington D.C.,
January the 20th, 1977

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NARRATOR:
Afghanistan.

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A war which cost the lives

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of nearly 15,000
young Soviet conscripts

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and an estimated
one million Afghans.

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[speaking Russian ]

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It was the Soviet Union's
Vietnam syndrome,

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so to speak.

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It was impossible
for a great superpower

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to run away

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One of the CIA's greatest
spies Dmitri Polyakov

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is caught by the KGB
and strip-searched

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his head is held in an arm lock
to prevent him taking poison

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"The invisible front

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that's what it was in the cold war

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and for us it was war.

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The soldiers may
have been on alert

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but for us and the others
who went out in the cold

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it was actual war."

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ARCHIVE- SONG:
♫ And I am proud to be an American ♫

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♫ Where at least
I know I'm free ♫

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♫ And I won't forget
the men who died ♫

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♫ Who gave that
right to me ♫

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♫ And I gladly stand
up next to you ♫

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♫ And defend her
still today ♫

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♫ 'Cos there ain't no
doubt I love this land ♫

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I' God bless the USA!" I'

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The Berlin Wall

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part of the Iron Curtain
that cut Europe in two.

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Beyond the wire,

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armed force had always held down
the peoples of the Communist world.

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In 1989,

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the Wall was still intact,

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but there was a new mood in Moscow.

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The use of force had discredited
itself completely.

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It was no longer possible to stabilize
the world by military methods.

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After six months in office as president

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George Bush at last decided it was
time for a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev.

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"I said, 'I want to meet Gorbachev
and I want to do it soon.

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I felt it was important,
but we had different

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feelings inside our administration,

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still some wariness about
the reality of the change...

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and what Gorbachev's heartbeat really was...

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what his pulse really was."

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"The George Bush administration
spent a long time