The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago today, an event that marked the end of the Soviet Union and its Iron Curtain.
Conservatives remember this as a huge success for their hero, President Ronald Reagan. But like a lot of good stories, the Reagan success was not quite the conservative triumph they claim that it is.
Yes, the Wall came down, but it wasn't because of Reagan's hawkish policies. The truth, as usual, is a more complex story, and it doesn't favor the Conservative True Believers.
Read the analysis, from The Daily Beast, here.
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