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Detente would soon break down completely under well-meaning President Carter, and the Cold War was thus about to really HEAT UP once again otherwise! It would take a MIRACLE to bring an end to the threat of potential nuclear annihilation.
In summary, shortly after the speech was given, three key leaders had been elected that were all instrumental in ultimately ending the Cold War by 1991. They were, in chronological order: 1) Pope John Paul II (Roman Catholic Church) in 1978, 2) President Ronald Reagan (USA) in 1980, and finally 3) Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union) in 1985. All three leaders played their own unique roles in doing so, the former as an influential spiritual and religious leader, and the latter two as the heads of state of the two primary adversarial world superpowers of that protracted conflict. On March 25, 1984, Pope John Paul II was believed by many to have finally consecrated Russia in fulfillment of the Fatima prophecy, though he did not specifically mention Russia or the Soviet Union by name. He did, however, refer to "all individuals and peoples", which would implicitly include Russia as well. And it was believed by many that that was the way that the Blessed Virgin Mary would have wanted it done.
In 1989, the infamous Berlin Wall (the wall that symbolically kept half of Europe prisoner for decades) finally came down, and by 1991, the Soviet Union had collapsed, and the Cold War had ended, God willing.
See the following Wikipedia article, where much of the aforementioned information is also noted, albeit in relatively bland and watered-down form. And now, this information is slowly but surely coming back from decades of relative obscurity.
Or better yet, read it all straight from Rasa's own sites in her very own words here:
And the rest is history. Or should we say, HERstory!

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