Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan uttered the most dramatic words of any president in my lifetime. "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Gorbachev declined. The people of Berlin, two-and-a-half years after Ronald Reagan called for the removal of the Berlin Wall, tore it down. Soviet imperialism left all sorts of monuments to its evil around Eastern Europe--the Brandenburg Gate, a mass grave in the Katyn Forest, the Stalin Monument once in Prague. Ronald Reagan left few monuments, but one rich legacy: freedom.

He does have an airport and a very large federal building named after him.

My bad. I should have indicated monuments in Europe. Reagan has quite a few monuments in the U.S. The conquerors erect monuments; the liberators, which I do believe Reagan was one, generally don't. Though, I was heartened to see in Krakow's Nova Huta, a square and a street named for Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, another of those who put Soviet Communism on the defensive during the 1980s.

Just a small correction. The Brandenburg Gate was rather a sign of German imperialism than Soviet. It was commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm II and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Regardless, the Soviets left plenty of other reminders throughout Berlin.