the u commission president ursula van de lion said gorbachev played a crucial role to end the cold war and bring down the iron curtain. it opened the way for a free europe. many rushing to see him as the man who stood by, as the soviet union disintegrated. his legacy is dead. he allowed, or the peaceful collapse of the soviet union. it did not use massive force to keep eastern europe ah, in the empire. and with that, he deserves credit, but it is not that this was sung came and tried to undermine the system. he tried to reform. gorbachev, used perestroika or restructuring to reform, a stagnant economy that had seen people shorter food and consumer goods. and he used glass knolls, openness and freedom of speech that led to parts of the eastern bloc wising up against communism. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war, one state after the other broke away anglo merkel, former german chancellor spoke in her tribute of the fear in east germany with expectation the tanks would roll in, but quite the contrary. wasn't long before the berlin wall came down yet now 30 years on with rushe

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the president of the european commission made an unannounced trip to keith. ursula van de lion came with a clear message. you have your european friends by your side as long as the takes, and that we are friends forever, fun to lion and ukrainian presently, both the mere zalinski appear to have respect for one another. so lensky unveiled a plaque outside parliament honoring the you leader. after they held closed door meetings, bunder lion committed to 5000000000 and loans to ukraine, and 250000000 for schools and temporary housing for people displaced by the war. but she stopped short of committing to any new russian sanctions. something keep has been asking for bunder, lie and announced that she will be hosting a ukraine reconstruction congress at the end of october in berlin, where she will be bringing together people to discuss how much money ukraine will need to rebuild. and where to get that money from. and that amount could keep going up, because ukraine continues to be destroyed. as this country's war continues. late wednesday night, russian cruise missiles hit a damn in southern