Berliners Mark 25 Years Since Fall of the Berlin Wall

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On November 9, 1989, an exhausted East German bureaucrat misread a memo regarding the loosening of travel restrictions, prompting thousands of East Berliners to checkpoints at the Berlin Wall, a monstrous cement barrier which had kept them locked in for 28 years. Germans call that moment "Mauerfall" and "the peaceful revolution." 

Today marks 25 years since that watershed moment heralding the end of the Cold War and the demise of Stalinist communism in Europe. 

Reason TV went to East Berlin's Mauerpark, once the site of the No Man's Land or "death strip," between the Berlin Wall and another inner wall, where Berliners gathered to watch films depicting the life and death of what the East German government called "the anti-fascist barrier."

Produced by Anthony L. Fisher

About one and half minutes.

Music: "Berlin" by LASERS (https://www.facebook.com/lasersounds) 

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[Trollo]

SoConzzz emboldened by recent victory

[OneOut]

"fresh-baked maple-candied bacon chocolate chip cookies '

whaaaat ?

I want one. Right now.

[Headless Body of Agnew]

And smoke a cigarette afterwards, amirite?

[Suthenboy]

"Town health agent Elizabeth Swedberg said a ban seemed like a sensible solution to a vexing problem."

The vexing problem is people choosing to ingest disapproved substances into their own bodies that they own and the local health offcials fuckin' don't.

Also, Liz seems to be confused about the definition of the word 'sensible'.

[AlmightyJB]

Sensible is whatever Liz wants to do. Duh.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Why do you think they are Socons?

[Trollo]

Republican Christfags from the South...DUH!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yeah...banning tobacco has been a big Republican push.

[OneOut]

Regan had a hand in this wall coming down so it must be evil.

[Suthenboy]

Didn't someone post a link in the last few days to an article that claimed eastern germany and eastern europe as a whole has not markedly improved since the fall of the U.S.S.R.?

They used some less than credible economic measures to make their case. Nevermind the immeasurable human misery that communism brings.

Has anyone heard from that miserable, smug little douchebag commie Myerson lately?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I had to read a book by commie Michael Parenti for a community college poli sci course.

In the book he claimed that millions of Eastern Europeans have found out that capitalism and privatization means higher prices, lower quality service, and low wages.

I sincerely regret not being as intellectually developed back then as I am now because it makes me angry that my professor got away with teaching that shit unchallenged.

[Walter Peck]

I sincerely regret not being as intellectually developed back then as I am now because it makes me angry that my professor got away with teaching that shit unchallenged.

They have to hook them while they're young.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

But that aside, Parenti is a scumbag who acted as an apologist for Slobodan Millovic of all people and wrote a book denying the crimes of the socialist Serbian government.

[Sevo]

"They used some less than credible economic measures to make their case. Nevermind the immeasurable human misery that communism brings."

They compared statistics on relative wealth and totally ignored confounding facts.

[OneOut]

Yeah.

Like the fact that there are actually goods in the stores to buy.

[Sevo]

Not to mention food you can eat! Shoes that fit! Cars that move!

[John Titor]

You want to know the greatest insult to Communism I've ever seen? When I was in Berlin there were tourist shops where you could buy chunks of the Berlin Wall with German government certificates of authenticity. Capitalism turned their scary wall into souvenirs.

[Suthenboy]

I wish I had one.

[Suthenboy]

I googled it.

You are right. There is some serious butthurt out there about that. Tons of people decrying it or belittling it.

Here is a good line from one site - "The German Democratic Republic constructed the wall to keep anti-socialist individuals present in West Germany out of East Germany."

Lying fuckin commies will lie.

[Sevo]

"Here is a good line from one site - "The German Democratic Republic constructed the wall to keep anti-socialist individuals present in West Germany out of East Germany.""

Yep, when it came down, the west Germans just swarmed east!
Pent up demand for empty stores!

[John C. Randolph]

I remember back around that time, Barq's root beer got a hold of a carload of soviet insignia, baby lenin pins, shit like that, and they were giving it out in 12-packs of root beer.

Their ad campaign was "The party's over! Free Soviet Stuff!" I LOVED the fact that communism was ending as kitsch that a soft drink company was giving away because it was funny.

-jcr

[Hyperion]

So, I'm trying to get my daughter-in-law mail me a piece of the wall. She just recently moved to Berlin. I hope she can't be arrested for that, Eurotradia is pretty fucked up so I'm not sure.

[tao 48]

Not many things warm my heart more than when a monstrosity built by control freaks comes crumbling down.

Among the most prized gifts I have ever received were a pair of concrete chunks of the Wall, given to me by a dear friend who had visited there shortly after the "fall." Wondering about the authenticity of the pieces I asked her if she had bought them from someone on the street. "Oh no!" she said. Before traveling to Germany, and knowing of my interest in the whole affair, she had taken the trouble to pack a hammer in her luggage and with it she chipped off the pieces herself. Thank you, good friend, how could I ever have doubted you!

[Hyperion]

We should send every leftist democrat a piece of it with no explanation.

I bet that when Obama receives his piece that he sees it as a confirmation that he's doing the will of the people.

[Suthenboy]

"We should send every leftist democrat a piece of it with no explanation."

This idea, I like it.

[Johnimo]

Here in Montana our most recent candidate for the US Senate writes articles for the news letter of the IWW, of which her husband is a member. These wobblies want to free workers from "wage slavery," and bring an end to the capitalist system. She got 40% of the vote. We're never very far from the next cement wall.

[Migrant Log Picker]

Not in Montana bro, the idiots in Missoula and Butte are not Montana, despite their adding the idiot student vote they won't prevail here.

[Migrant Log Picker]

I went to Ost Berlin on a school trip in 71 as a 15 year old, went through Checkpoint Charlie. After travelling in France and the GDR it was amazing that there was nothing to buy in East Berlin. We had lunch at some shit hole and were served something inedible, it was cheap though. They had a decent museum with a lot of Egyptian antiquities.

No one there even smiled, as a young kid I found it strange. It was a drab, humourless shithole and no one there seemed like they gave a shit at all. IIRC we had to change 5 bucks worth of GDR marks for the DDR equivalent. Being we spent about 50 cents on lunch and the same to get into the museum the DDR made 4 bucks on my short visit as we could not take their worthless marks out. A government that needs to extort piddling amounts of revenue from pimply teens from the US is doomed.

Unfortunately I bought into the lefty worship in college, I even bought a gal an auto biography of Emma Goldman. At least I got a little there.

That place was a lifeless shithole and dealing with fedgov over the years makes me think this is the progtard vision going forward...won't fly here.

[PS]

That communism seems to be coming back into vogue speaks volumes about how little people have learned from history.

[granite state destroyer]

Our neighborhood restaurant is run by a Czech women. Recently we were reminiscing about the good old days. She sent her kids to summer camp one year in Poland in the 1980s. She got a letter a few days letter from her kids begging to send food. Not money to buy food, actual food. The camp provided nothing, there was literally nothing to buy in the shops, and the Polish kids were living on care packages or visits from their parents. She also remembered that East Germany was a consumer paradise for Czechs, because they sold children's clothes in shops. On the other hand, East Germans near the border would come over to Czechoslovakia to shop because you could buy tinned sardines in Czechoslovakia. For some reason the country with a coastline on the Baltic Sea had no fish for sale, but landlocked Czechoslovakia did. Socialist planning at its best.

[ryanactonuvo]

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