Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle, the writer and presenter of the Epic 12-part series, The Cold War,

What We Saw, which tells the story of the Titanic 20th century struggle between two competing ideologies

from its infancy at the end of World War II, all the way to its conclusion with the fall of the

Berlin Wall and then the Soviet Union itself. You'll transport back in time, feel what it was

like to live through the end of the Cold War and understand why that struggle was a battle for

civilization itself. I thought you might enjoy a sneak peak of Watts to come followed by an

interview with the man who wrote Ronald Reagan's famous tear down this wall speech. I'm talking

of course about Peter Robinson. Make sure to subscribe to this channel so you don't miss any episodes

and come back here January 31st for the full release of episode one. You certainly won't want to miss it.

30 years ago, the Berlin Wall was torn down by the people that it had divided for three decades.

Berliners were euphoric. They were euphoric because the Berlin Wall was not merely a wall between east

and west Berlin. It was the wall between east and west period. It was the division of humanity into

two different camps and since names and labels are always changing and morphing, not to mention

carrying decades of emotional baggage, let's reduce it to the most simple, emotionally neutral terms.

On one side of the wall, the eastern side, were the collectivists who believed that society

takes precedent over the person. This collectivism was advertised as new and scientific, but the fact is

that collectivism has been the default condition of humanity since humanity began.

No, the actual newcomer to this clash of visions were the individualists on the western side.

The first government in history dedicated to the idea of the individual being more

worthy of protection than the state had just turned 170 years old when the 40-year conflict known

as the Cold War began. With the world in ruins after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan

and Fascist Italy, these two ideologies had come into head-on conflict here in Berlin.

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