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• November 2009 Socialist Standard: Free at last . . . . Twenty years beyond the Berlin Wall.

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 122
  November 2009 Socialist Standard Editorial Socialism was never tried Regular Columns Pathfinders Gullibility Travels Cooking the Books 1 Out of control Cooking the Books 2 Free is cheaper? Material World Malawi: Children of the Tobacco Fields Greasy Pole TV Debates - much ado about ...
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• U.S. electricity, brought to you from... the Soviet Union

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Russia Theres perhaps no better example of how much the world has changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago and the end of the Cold Ware shortly thereafter, than the following: an American flips a switch to turn on a light in his or her home and the power came from where? The Soviet ...
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• BNW on AU Observer Afghanistan Panel

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 438
  
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• Mr. President – Concerning Afghanistan, Ask Someone Who Knows

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 573
  I make absolutely no excuses for voting for the current President. I believe that if John McCain had become the top executive, we would be further embroiled in an inexcusable, unwinnable war. The President is a learned man, which is why I thought we could trust him to correctly interpret what has occurred in ...
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• The Wall

  
  Great Power Politics — Authority: 112
  When the Berlin Wall came down and ignited the opening of Eastern Europe to democracy and capitalism, I was just 9 years old. I remember thinking the ‘Cold War’ was an actual war that we seemed to be fighting permanently. Only while earning my Bachelors in history did I start to truly understand the event’s ...
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• Finland Calls Soviet Bluff

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  For nearly a month, direct negotiations had persisted.  Back-and-forth communications?…more than 18 months.  The Soviet Union had, since April of 1938, been interested in territory that belonged to Finland, its neighbor to the west.  And Finland had (more or less) politely refused. The Nazi-Soviet Pact came ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-09 19:14:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THE FALL OF THE WALL-20 YEARS ON: Today marks the 20 th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall as an effective barrier between East and West Germany. This sudden collapse of one of East Germanys main controls on its citizens was certainly not the first, the last or even the most ...
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• Cold War's End — The Wall Comes Down

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 465
  It must be a little hard to understand, for anyone reading this under the age of about 30 or so, the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Because one event has become historical shorthand for an immense change in the dynamics of not just our country, but the entire world. Weve all seen the ...
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• The True, Heartbreaking Faces of the Nuclear Era [Nukes]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  Sometimes I write about high-tech weapons . Theres something fascinating about the technological terror that humans have been developing to obliterate each other for centuries, so its easy to forget about the real consequences of this mad race . [EXPLICIT IMAGES AHEAD] A few years after the United States ...
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• The True, Heartbreaking Faces of the Nuclear Era [Nukes]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
            Sometimes I write about high-tech weapons . There’s something fascinating about the technological terror that humans have been developing to obliterate each other for centuries, so it’s easy to forget about the real consequences of this mad race . [EXPLICIT IMAGES AHEAD] A few years after the ...
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• BBC Poll on Capitalism : Wheres the Love?

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 479
  Global survey on free market capitalism:Majority say fix it or ditch itBy James Robbins / November 9, 2009Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 ...
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• Report on Fall of Berlin Wall, Collapse of Iron Curtain

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  This video shows an ABC News report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of reform and political change that rapidly swept across eastern Europe in the months surrounding that event. The report cites the efforts of mass movements of ordinary people to overthrow hardline totalitarian regimes through peaceful ...
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• The West Must Come to Terms With a Strong Russia: Rossijskaya Gazeta, Russia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  The day the Wall came down: Bewildered East German border guards puzzle over whether to shake the hands of their former adversaries from the West, on November 9, 1989. Yes – today is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A reading of this op-ed by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ...
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• History as Politics : Remembering the Berlin Wall

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 479
  Man straddles Berlin Wall in 1989. Photo from photosfan.com.History as politics, Politics as history: Remembering the Berlin WallBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2009...you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice and the principles of humanity wherever you go, go out and sell goods that will ...
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• Lech Walesa: The First Wall to Fall Was in Poland

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  As the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lech Walesa, the co-founder of Solidarnosc , Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Poland, wants to share in the celebration, the honor and the credit—and perhaps rightly so. Walesa was recently interviewed by Spiegel Online ...
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• The Fall of One Wall

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 610
  On the anniversary of the collapse of the East German police state, Commentary has a great piece by Peter Wehner on the meaning of The Fall of One Wall . It turns out that in the contest between freedom and totalitarianism, freedom does pretty well.
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• A Developer of Hydrogen Bomb Is Dead

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Mr. Ginzburg, a Russian physicist, helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb and went on the win the Nobel Prize.
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• Tearing Down and Building Up Walls

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the Iron Curtain that divided the Free World from those in bondage. Only a few short years before, Ronald Reagan famously challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” . Two years after the fall of the Wall, ...
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• The Fall of the Wall: A Resounding Victory for Freedom

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a resounding victory for freedom and human dignity.  On this day 20 years ago, a long-standing symbol of division and oppression crumbled under the weight of a revolution inspired by leaders whose faith in God and commitment to freedom changed the world.  Years in the making, that ...
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• Was the Collapse of the Soviet Union a Disappointment?

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 161
  There is an article in todays El Pais about the disappointment that many people from the former Eastern bloc feel about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ensuing process of transition to a new political and economic system. Many people in the former socialist countries (especially those who belong to the ...
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