Monday, November 09, 2009

20 Years Since Berlin Wall Was Torn Down

Here's a classical clip related to today's 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin wall:

What Reagan could have added when he mentioned Khrushchev's "We will bury you"-prediction was that if communism was so more attractive, then the wall wouldn't be needed since no one in East Germany or other communist country would want to leave. If anything, West Germans should try to flee the "capitalist exploation" they suffered from according to communist ideology.