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philip_daniel 2 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

The Berlin Wall Didn't Just 'Fall' http://bit.ly/3yF0zS

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rogerlsimon 3 months ago on Twitter

PJM: The Berlin Wall Didn't Just 'Fall', by Stephen Green. It was torn down by the brave men and women it imprisoned. http://ow.ly/B6PL

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PJTV 3 months ago on Twitter

PJM: The Berlin Wall Didn't Just 'Fall', by Stephen Green. It was torn down by the brave men and women it imprisoned. http://ow.ly/B6PK

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gentheft 3 months ago on Twitter

PJM: The Berlin Wall Didn't Just 'Fall', by Stephen Green. It was torn down by the brave men and women it imprisoned. http://ow.ly/B6PG

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Steve Ducharme 3 months ago on Wordpress

Oh OK I didn’t see how you were using that TV show as an example of western cultural influence behind the iron curtain.

I thought that maybe Larry Hagmen was a spy or something…

and yes…

I’m kidding.

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DeanSiracusa 3 months ago on Twitter

Never forget how the Berlin Wall actually fell. It was by perseverance and force. http://tr.im/EG5S #TCOT

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McGehee 3 months ago on Wordpress

The Prussians were exceptionally authoritarian compared to the other German states – I’d be careful drawing such parallels.

Well, yeah — but O doesn’t see authoritarianism as a bug.

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kerrypwood 3 months ago on Twitter

The Berlin Wall Didn’t Just ‘Fall’ #tcot http://bit.ly/3yF0zS

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Barefoot Doctor 3 months ago on Wordpress

Meanwhile, they are now giving all the credit to Gorby.

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misanthropicus 3 months ago on Wordpress

Ich bin ein (optional) Berliner!

If anyone still needs a proof that what make dba Obama tick is nothing but a wretched mixture of (three of many others traits):

a) deep, instinctive and active antipathy for America, its legitimate interests, its history and honor,

b) a pathologically hypertrophied sense of self-importance which makes him to avoid any public event where he is not the object of mass adoration,

c) and of a collection of parochial instincts which preclude him to discern the true significance, rhythms & paassions of the world, thus forbidding him to neutralize (a) and (b) and take (occassionally) a correct decision…

… then Obama’s skillful absence at the Berlin Wall celebration (act that touchingly complements his equally astute Olympic flight to Danemark) should confirm any suspicion that Obama’s presence in the White House is a sinister joke -

Bellow, a couple of (early & merciful) pieces about Obama’s superb manifestations of gross inanity in foreign affairs matters:

* “Barack Obama’s shameful absence from Berlin”/Nile Gardiner/ Daily Telegraph –

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100016197/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-

* “Berlin and the Case of the Missing President”/ Pejman Yousefzadeh/New Ledger

http://newledger.com/2009/11/berlin-and-the-case-of-the-missing-president/

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PS. Obama’s Danemark Olympic flight – that curious enterprise reminded me Rudolf Hess’ keen reading of the British minds in 1940, before parachuting in Scotland to arrange things with Churchill -

PPS. Looking forward for the Obamatons’ explanation that Obama was to busy to travel to Berlin because his camp David vacation was overdue –

Rudolph Hess

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jon 3 months ago on Wordpress

“The most murderous ideology in the history of mankind” isn’t communism, though that’s definitely a dominant strain. Totalitarianism, the notion that an individual is nothing but a tool of the state or something to be crushed, isn’t something that was invented by Marx and Engels. Those guys proposed taking the crushing boot and putting it on a different foot. Totalitarianism is something as old as kings and warlords and tribal chiefs and probably even the best hunter among the first family group of almost-humans. The oppression of the individual has been a constant throughout history, it’s just that the modern world has more people to enslave, more weapons to kill, and more historians to count the bodies. There are a lot of examples of some guy sitting atop a pile of skulls somewhere in history saying to himself, “History will remember me.”

As for the Berlin Wall, Reagan was one of many players in that mix. Gorbachev and Thatcher, Western banks, oil discoveries in the North Sea, profligate spending on the part of the US and Japan, and other things like Dallas (yes, the television program) contributed to make the Soviet Union lose control over their satellites (and itself.) And once the satellites figured this out and the orders to shoot to kill weren’t being given, it was almost anticlimactic how mundane it was at the beginning. Vacationing East Germans in Hungary getting to take a side trip to Austria was how it started. The fall of the Wall in Berlin and Reagan saying “Tear down this wall” was where the cameras were, but the most important players in the fall itself may have been some Hungarians with wire cutters not doing their job.

Good for those guys as much as Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman and Roosevelt. Good for all the British and even the French Prime Ministers, West German leaders who dealt with their own nation’s history while trying not to be the start of another war, and all the other NATO countries. Good for all the military guys, their families, and their taxpaying public who paid through the nose to buy things that never got used (and that was a good “waste” of money.) Good for the Taiwanese, the Japanese, Hong Kong bankers, Saudi princes, and Israel. Especially Israel, who showed the Russians that their best wasn’t nearly as good as our second-hand stuff (not that the Israelis didn’t do stuff on their own, but for proxy wars the Israelis are the best allies to make your enemies think twice about effing with you.) And good for the Eastern Europeans and Russians, who are proving themselves capable of not going directly back to communist rule even though it had some advantages. I’m glad the world is a better place without that enemy, even as it shows itself under new masks. ... See all content Hide content

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Marc Malon 3 months ago on Wordpress

Of course it just fell. Sh1t just happens, y’know. It’s like Keynesian economics. Certain things are inexplicable, because they don’t fit the narrative, so they are dismissed as just happening.

It’s like the recent blogpost I saw linked today at townhall.com. It claimed that it is egocentric of us to think we caused the fall of the USSR. No, our opposition had nothing to do with it. It just fell.

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Steve Ducharme 3 months ago on Wordpress

If “we” spent one tenth the the energy remembering communism for what it truly was as we do on Vietnam for instance, than posts like this would not be necessay. I know they’re not perfect but thank goodness for Fox news and the internet, or communism would be remembered as a merely small quirk of history instead of the most muderous ideology in the history of mankind.

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Berlin Wall Fall: 20 Years Later 3 months ago on Wordpress

[...] don’t have much in the way of unique insights to offer beyond pointing to Stephen Green’s observation that, “The Berlin Wall didn’t just fall down. It was torn down. It was [...]

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