New at Reason: Cathy Young on Communist Nostalgia and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

November 16, 2009

The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago was one of the most exhilarating events of the 20th Century. No one could fail to be moved by the joy of people who tore down a loathed monument to tyranny. But as Contributing Editor Cathy Young writes, there are widespread reports that for many east Germans today, liberation has turned to disillusionment.

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