FROM SOLIDARITY TO DEMOCRACY -- BY MATTHEW KAMINSKI, The Wall Street Journal

A Polish dissident reflects on the liberation of Eastern Europe 20 years later.

'Fantastyczne!"

That's the word Adam Michnik, the man who played one of the starring roles in bringing the Cold War to an end, exclaims in Polish as he thinks back over the two decades since the Berlin Wall fell that Nov. 9 evening. He repeats it in rapid fire, each time flawlessly, with no hint of his trademark stutter.

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