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Western media can be expected to turn on their propaganda machines to
commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin
Wall, November 9, 1989. All the Cold War clichà �s about The Free World
vs. Communist Tyranny will be trotted out and the simple tale of how
the wall came to be will be repeated: In 1961, the East Berlin
communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from escaping
to West Berlin and freedom. Why? Because commies don't like people to
be free, to learn the "truth". What other reason could there have been?� �� �
Embarrassingly, yours truly confesses to having been involved in creating at least one possible real reason.
Germans experienced a truly joyous moment with the removal of that Berlin Wall, bittersweet at the same time for the memory of the deaths of those shot crossing it.
But even the enormous discredit and opprobrium that the Wall and the shootings rightly brought down upon the leaders of East Germany, and by extension the Soviet leaders who supported it, cannot erase the earlier horrific memories of the monstrous amount of lives taken by a powerful marauding German war machine built up with heavy investment and cooperation from America's industrial and financial elite.
Now that capitalists are on the ropes, perhaps
their conglomerate owned entertainment/news media will allow a review
of the history of how and why communist movements arose and still arise
in desperate and deliberate response to great suffering caused by
unbearable legalized injustice throughout much of the world. A world
that was, and still is, subjected to the profit motive of the few
causing a miserable quality of life, sickness and early death for a
large part of Mankind.
Today one billion of our brothers and sisters are walled in to experience hunger and malnutrition, many of whom will be shot while trying to feed themselves by � ��˜illegal' means.
Let's see to bringing down these capitalist built walls. Walls of colonialism and neo-colonialism that predate the ill conceived and ultimately inhuman attempt of a communist governed East Germany to cordon itself off.
In the name of this anniversary, condemn all the walls that still exist anywhere.
Embarrassingly, yours truly confesses to having been involved in creating at least one possible real reason.
Germans experienced a truly joyous moment with the removal of that Berlin Wall, bittersweet at the same time for the memory of the deaths of those shot crossing it.
But even the enormous discredit and opprobrium that the Wall and the shootings rightly brought down upon the leaders of East Germany, and by extension the Soviet leaders who supported it, cannot erase the earlier horrific memories of the monstrous amount of lives taken by a powerful marauding German war machine built up with heavy investment and cooperation from America's industrial and financial elite.
Today one billion of our brothers and sisters are walled in to experience hunger and malnutrition, many of whom will be shot while trying to feed themselves by � ��˜illegal' means.
Let's see to bringing down these capitalist built walls. Walls of colonialism and neo-colonialism that predate the ill conceived and ultimately inhuman attempt of a communist governed East Germany to cordon itself off.
In the name of this anniversary, condemn all the walls that still exist anywhere.
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