Editor:

Twenty years ago this fall the Iron Curtain collapsed in Europe. All across the Warsaw Pact the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled. I wonder why the anniversary is going all but unnoticed here. Why aren't we celebrating President Ronald Reagan's achievement of the greatest mass liberation in history?

Well, because to celebrate it would mean recognizing it as a victory over Communism. After the left's long march through the institutions of the West, most are not willing to do that. There's the bad totalitarianism (Nazism) and the good totalitarianism (Communism), whose apologists and followers can still be found everywhere today, even in the White House.

JIM CRISWELL, Lander