The Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989. This was the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe was mostly freed from the "Iron Curtain'' imposed by Russia after World War II by the early '90s.
There are now a couple of generations of American youths being fully introduced to Russia's evil ways through the crazed, murderous actions of leader Vladimir Putin.
As for our sports world, many of those mid-30s and under might be puzzled as to how it can be that basketball player Britney Griner can continue to be imprisoned in Russia for no reasonable cause.
