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• NYT > World: A Fateful Day, and the East Tasted Freedom

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The fall of the Berlin Wall was so fine a moment, it takes effort to recall how spontaneous the breach really was.
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• NYT > World: Moscow Journal: An Oasis Is No Match for Bulldozers and Bureaucrats

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The Soviet government’s land monopoly may have ended some two decades ago, but the ability of the authorities to give and take away territory has not, real estate experts say.
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• Who Misses the USSR?

  
  Russia — Authority: 410
  The Global South, it seems. According to a BBC poll published on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , “opinion about the disintegration of the Soviet Union is sharply divided. Europeans overwhelmingly say it was a good thing: 79% in Germany, 76% in Britain and 74% in France feel that way. But ...
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• Moscow Journal: An Oasis Is No Match for Bureaucrats

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Little remained after a house in the Rechnik settlement was razed. Officials are reclaiming land in the settlement.
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• Special Report: A Fateful Day, and the East Tasted Freedom

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A demonstrator pounded at the Berlin Wall next to the Brandenburg Gate early on Nov. 11, 1989, as East German border guards, on the other side, responded with a water hose.
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• NYT > World: Special Report: A Fateful Day, and the East Tasted Freedom

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The fall of the Berlin Wall was so fine a moment, it takes effort today to recall how spontaneous the breach really was.
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• Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp

  
  The New Republic - the spine Feed — Authority: 123
  It is just about 30 years since the wall around Iran went up. And it is a few days away from fully 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. The Berliner Mauer had been up for more than a quarter century, and its surface facing east, grim gray , was a metaphor for life in the German Democratic Republic. On its ...
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• russia’s marxist labour party: twenty years after the wall fell

  
  the commune — Authority: 475
  The coming week marks twenty years since the fall of the Berlin wall. This event represented one of the high points of a great mass struggle against the tyrannical order in the Eastern Bloc, but with the defeats of movements opposed to both these statist régimes and the free market, the popular movements of 1989 are ...
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• Old Photos: Revolution Parade In The Red Square

  
  Kansas City with the Russian Accent — Authority: 116
  If you are a long-time follower of this blog, I am sure you already know that today is the day to fly your red flag to celebrate another anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution – a holiday no longer celebrated in Russia where people for some reason blame it for 70 years of crappy life. I am not going ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 9 November 1989

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Berlin Wall 20 years on: A nation, free of its cage Twenty years ago this week, the people of one of the least happy countries on the planet were forced to build a new existence from the powder of a shattered barrier and the foam of a half-formed dream. They were farmers and workers, walled in since childhood, they ...
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• Proof positive

  
  Machetera — Authority: 458
  “The Russian Revolution was the tangible proof needed by the earth’s damned, to be sure that Marx’s dream was not an illusion” - Español An interview with Spanish writer Manuel Talens on the 92nd anniversary of the October Revolution By Salvador López Arnal English translation: Machetera From ...
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• Tinker, tailor, solider, spy.....

  
  The Tao of Blog — Authority: 99
  How the Kremlin hijacked Labour: Diary of a Kremlin insider reveals the hold Soviets had over Labour politicians | Mail Online Ah! the Cold War Era!... Protect and Survive and all that.. Oh! What a tangled web we weave when we do practice to decieve. From the article By Sue Reid Last updated at 1:40 AM on 06th ...
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• FLASHBACK – India, Israel linked to Pakistan plot

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 529
  In 2002. it was learned from highly placed intelligence sources that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad are collaborating to train several hundred militants to be used in an attempt to destabilize the administration of President General Pervez Musharraf.Oct 8, 2002 India, Israel linked to ...
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• Unemployment now tops 10%, when will democrats realize their policies aren’t working?

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 607
  Never. Insanity, pure insanity! That’s the only way to describe the democrats and their economic agenda. Everything they do makes things worse, so what do they do? More of the same. And what do we get? More unemployment. Today’s numbers are the worst in decades. Unemployment is now officially 10.2%, which ...
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• Video : George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev on Fall of Berlin Wall ‘It Wouldn’t Have Been Prudent to Celebrate’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 439
  Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Al Jazeera English’s David Frost sat down with former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev: “ I always thought that History was a very fickle lady “
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• Night witches

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  Night witches. "Russias three all-female air regiments flew more than 30,000 missions along the Eastern Front in WWII. At home they were known as Stalins Falcons, but terrified German troops called them the Night Witches." Also: Adventures in Feministory: The Night Witches , more on The Night Witches and Soviet ...
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• Chronicles of a $oviet Capitalist

  
  Russia — Authority: 410
  My last post chronicled the large numbers of people (45% of Russians and up to 62% of Ukrainians) made worse off by the fall of the USSR. But what about the rest? One man who certainly did not figure among them was Misha, the hero of a vivid, at times zany, groteque and poignant fictionalised account by Georgian ...
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• 1989: The Lost Year

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  1989: The Lost Year. "Twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down, the end of the Cold War still inspires euphoria and triumphalism in the West. But even as we lift toasts once again to the victory of 1989, we should re-examine that momentous year. Documents , memoirs , and other evidence that have come to light ...
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• Berlin

  
  Anna's Clue Tank — Authority: 110
  November 9th marks an important anniversary. This was the day when the Berlin Wall fell without a shot being fired. The guards in the towers, towers that had machine guns, merely slipped away as the sound of pick-axes signaled the demise of that hated wall. And so by demolishing this wall, the evil dictatorship called ...
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• Better Red Than Unfed? A Survey of Post-Communism

  
  Russia — Authority: 410
  After twenty years of post-Communism, it’s time to ask: cui bono ? According to a sweeping Pew Research Center poll of Eastern Europeans released yesterday , “the prevailing view in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary is that people were better off economically under communism. Only in ...
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