He gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall that divided Soviet-controlled East Germany from West Germany.
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Romania, once a breadbasket, could with its 23m people be a powerhouse of south-eastern Europe, just as Poland with nearly 40m has emerged incontestably as the new dynamo of east-central Europe between Germany and Belarus-Russia.
Furthermore, even if the Soviets had transferred the SS-23s to East Germany before the INF Treaty was signed -- a contention unsupported by any public evidence at this time -- the existence, declaration, and elimination of all such weapons would have been directly relevant to the negotiation of that accord.