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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Looking Back and Forward

http://www.lobelog.com/fall-of-the-berlin-wall-looking-back-and-forward/

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Looking Back and Forward

by Robert E. Hunter
Twenty-five years ago, on “9/11”—November 9th in European date-notation—the Berlin Wall opened and, it seemed, everything changed. Freedom was no longer just an aspiration across much of Europe but a rising reality. The transformation was so profound that it is now hard to remember the bad old days of communist oppression and Soviet dominance, when peoples all across Central Europe lacked hope for the future and feared the secret police.
A quarter century beyond the settlement of the 75-year European civil war (1914-89), what is the balance of achievement following that remarkable overturning of European history and of much of global politics and economics? There is much good, but also some bad, and history did not “come to an end.”

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