It was a message to the Polish people, whose Solidarity labor union along with Pope John Paul II were pushing Moscow very hard. What happened in Grenada was hope to the 16 million East Germans separated from their countrymen by a vast system of fortification. The liberation of Grenada meant that the liberation of Nicaragua from the Ortega brothers Marxist dictatorship was possible. Even within the Soviet Union, in captive nations like Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia -- Baltic States acquired when Moscow was an ally of the Nazis -- there was a candle of promise lit. -Bruce Walker (The Beginning of the End of the Cold War)
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