October 24-26, 2014

By Victor Grossman

“Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall. “


The children’s rhyme and its words Wall and Fall came to mind in connection with commemorations of the fall of the Berlin Wall – actually its opening up. Is such an allusion frivolous? Maybe. For millions that event twenty-five years ago was marked by genuine, understandable euphoria. But unceasing ballyhoo in the German media, weeks and weeks ahead of the anniversary, and plans for 8000 white helium balloons lit up by 60,000 batteries along the ten-mile length of the former wall, to be releasedRead More... (http://mltoday.com/why-did-east-germany-really-go-under)
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