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1. In an odd way it was a very good reminder to a few generations of the success of socialism . Something that is needed for todays snowflakes that do not know history and a product of public schools
   CM Dutch

2. Some years back I heard an interview with a man who was one of the Soviet higher-ups. He said that when the East German government saw that the people no longer feared them, they capitulated.

   This quote says it all: “Later, the dissident Bärbel Bohley would say about Markus Wolf, former head of the East German foreign intelligence service and speaker during the demonstration:

   When I saw that his hands were trembling because the people were booing I said to Jens Reich: We can go now, now it is all over. The revolution is irreversible.”[7]

   Contrary to popular belief, Reagan’s challenge to Gorbachev played a small part.

   There is more history of the “Peaceful Revolution”, by people stepping up in courage, that led to the opening of the wall here:

   Fall of the Berlin Wall

   In June 1989 the Hungarian government began dismantling the electrified fence along its border with Austria (with Western TV crews present), and then, in September, more than 13,000 East German tourists escaped through Hungary to Austria.[108] This set up a chain of events. The Hungarians prevented many more East Germans from crossing the border and returned them to Budapest. These East Germans flooded the West German embassy and refused to return to East Germany.[109]

   The East German government responded by disallowing any further travel to Hungary, but allowed those already there to return to East Germany.[10] This triggered similar events in neighboring Czechoslovakia. This time, however, the East German authorities allowed people to leave, provided that they did so by train through East Germany. This was followed by mass demonstrations within East Germany itself. Protest demonstrations spread throughout East Germany in September 1989. Initially, protesters were mostly people wanting to leave to the West, chanting “Wir wollen raus!” (“We want out!”). Then protestors began to chant “Wir bleiben hier!” (“We are staying here!”). This was the start of what East Germans generally call the “Peaceful Revolution” of late 1989.[110] The protest demonstrations grew considerably by early November. The movement neared its height on 4 November, when half a million people gathered to demand political change, at the Alexanderplatz demonstration, East Berlin’s large public square and transportation hub.”

   People like us unwilling to accept oppression.

   Carry on.

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