michelle. gov was hugely influential and deborah bassetti herself that he was one of the crucial initiators of the end of the cold war because of his ability to open up. also to the u. s. he opened up to europeans. he essentially led all the former countries belonging to the soviet union decide their own pass, and he wanted to reform the soviet union. but in the end, of course, that led to the soviet union's collapse. but this is something where bab abbas was very clear. this is something that cannot be forgotten and it is something all germans understand without michelle garbage of german reunification wouldn't have been possible. it's this is just a fact and the fact that it became a peaceful process is also attributed to him. this was not a collapse where some violent force went in and essentially said this is it. the wall came down peacefully. it was brought down by the people. and this was because of that special atmosphere where you had a leader in the soviet union called mikhail gorbachev. that created that atmosphere and that gave the people the confidence that it could be done. i t