All Posts Tagged With: "Berlin Wall"
Berlin, August 1961: An Anniversary We Should Never Forget
[This essay originally appeared in the National Review Online in 2001. ] August marks the anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall that for 28 years thereafter, divided the city of Berlin and closed off the only remaining escape hatch for people in the communist East who wanted freedom in the West. It was [...]
9Nov2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 9 comments | ContinuedTwo Decades Since the Fall
From “Perspective,” The Freeman, November 2009: On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall effectively ceased to exist. Remember the sequence: Communist Hungary started letting people pass into Austria and to freedom. Captives of the Soviet bloc left in droves. East Germans, too—thousands of them. The Hungarian government tried to stanch the flow, but the dam [...]
8Nov2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo Decades Since the Fall
Perspective Two Decades Since the Fall On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall effectively ceased to exist. Remember the sequence: Communist Hungary started letting people pass into Austria and to freedom. Captives of the Soviet bloc left in droves. East Germans, too—thousands of them. The Hungarian government tried to stanch the flow, but the dam [...]
23Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedA Tribute to the Polish People
The cause of liberty saw memorable highs and unconscionable lows in 1989. Surely that year will be best remembered as the year Soviet hegemony over central Europe disintegrated, paving the way for the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself in 1991. Free people everywhere should toast the brave people of one nation in particular–Poland–for the [...]
23Sep2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | Continued-
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