I predict that in the second half of 2020, peoples in the West-after months of suffereing with a global pandemic will demand changes as they go into the streets and visit the seats of power to reclaim sovereignities that these same masses have missed out on. They will at least temporarily kick out those who are seen as representatives of the 1% or 0.1%. i.e. who have the most representative or dictatorial powers

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By Kevin Stoda

Some years ago in a 3 partseries[1], I reviewed important events that occurred in Europe in 1989. I reflect on this now as those events will likely be what we witness again at the end of the current corona virus pandemic. (I suggest, you click on my 3 articles in the NOTES section of this blog, i.e, inorder to understand my prediction for how this is so relevant to today during our Pandemic of COVID-19.)

1989

I was living, teaching, and studying in Wuppertal German between 1986 and April 1990.

On the night of November 9, 1989, I was sleeping in my bed but was awakened with a call from my friend, Axel Kattwinkel, who informed me that the border between East and West Berlin and those Berliners who had been quarantined from each other for decades by a massive quarantine wall were suddenly allowed that evening to touch and intermingle on the streets of West Berlin (for the first time since 1961).

I was elated but nevertheless soon went back to sleep rather quickly, i.e. after hsving worked all day in the local Wickular Bier factory in Elberfeld. (I had drank beer while working and was in need of a rest. I should note that I usually only worked as a teacher 2 to 6 hours a day, instead of manually laboring, that is packing beer cases for Lufthansa airlines all day.)

Another reason why I had soon dozed off after Axel called me was likely because winds of change had been appearing throughout a divided Europe most of the 1980s. These changes had excelerated during 1989leading me to visit Moscow in January and Prague in Czechoslavakia in April just as changes began to accelerate.

I had been to West Berlin numerous times over the past 3 yearsincluding to attend a Church confrence bringing the East and Western churches together. I had also visited a group of christian environmental activists during that same visit. Meeting under the protection of churches was one way that such environmental groups and other activists in East Germany were able to meet throughout the decade.

In 1987, I had traveled to Hungary, stayed with a Hungarian named Gyorgy Bakyunin [2] , and at the very end of that trip I had crossed the border at Sopron. Sopron would play a major role for the so-called Pan-European Picnic .

In May of 1989, the Hungarian government had torn down the fence between Eastern and Western at Sopron Hungary.Soon thousands of Germans, Czechs, and Poles were flooding into Austria.Eastern Europeans on holiday nearby on a local lake in Hungary soon ffrom East to West slowly began to flood in Austria from Hungary during the summer. When this exit was plugged by August 1989, East Europeans flooded Western Consulates in Pragy. Finally, the first the trains left Prague loaded full of passengers traveled through Dresdon and Berlin into West Germany's Hamburg station in September 1989.

Then, the border virtually exploded at the Wall in West Berlin. The border guards opened the border for travel and intercourse without fanfare on the evening of November 9, 1989.

On the morning of November 10, 1989, I woke to a new and changing Europe.

I learnt that East German's were already driving around Wuppertal and in Bavaria their their Trabi-cars and shopping for bananas and sales. Within days, the new East German government would invite the opposition to create a new government and create a new way of running the country.

Poland had already begun it's own path to seperate from the Iron Curtain years before, but with the opening of the Wall in Berlin, the regime in Czechoslavakia also fell. Then Bulgaria followed suit as did the people of Romania, who killed their dictator in December of 1989. Likewise, the regime in Albania also capitulated.

PREDICTION

I predict that in the second half of 2020, peoples in the Westafter months of suffereing with a global pandemic will demand changes as they go into the streets and visit the seats of power to reclaim sovereignities that these same masses have missed out on.

They will at least temporarily kick out those who are seen as representatives of the 1% or 0.1%. i.e. who have the most representative or dictatorial powers in their ecnomies and societiesand religious institutions will be affected as well.

Will they succeed? Let's wait and see.

However, we need to begin to plan and forge alliances for such a push. Too often, Naomi Klein has indicated that we have been victims of the Shocks we have faced again and again over the past 5 or more decades. If we prepare and create new partnerships, new reforms and new regimes could be made to really serve the public and we could transform how societies and economies are run for generations.[3]

NOTES

REVOLUTIONS OF 1989Part 1: Tiananmen Square & After Effects in Europe

UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF UNCERTAINTY " Eslkevin's Blogeslkevin.wordpress.com " 2011/01/07 " unbearable-lightness-of-unce" Kevin Anthony Stoda http://www.opednews.com/articles/REVOLUTIONS-OF-1989 " 1989, the borders between the socialist Czechoslovakian/East German "

(PDF) REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 3 " ResearchGatewww.researchgate.net " publication " 236341095_REVOLUTIONS_OF"PDF | REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 2: CONTEXTUALIZATION of CHURCH'S ROLE By " http://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/3-big-paradigms-hol Submitters Bio: " Kevin Stoda, Germany NOTE: This is the second part in a series on "

[2] Gyorgy was the Hungarian camera man for taking CNN footage of the Russian Revolution against the Coup of 1991. CNN was not allowed to go into the USSR during the coup but stringers from Hungary could.

[3] Klein, Naomi on Corona Virus Shocks https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/17/we-know-script-naomi-klein-warns-coronavirus-capitalism-new-video-detailing-battle

(Article changed on March 30, 2020 at 13:07)

Authors Website: http://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/3-big-paradigms-hol

Authors Bio:

KEVIN STODA-has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.--He sees himself as a peace educator and have been-- a promoter of good economic and social development--making-him an enemy of my homelands humongous DEFENSE SPENDING and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues.

"I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' and 'alone' when I write and publish.- I-keep two blogs--one with BLOGGER and one with WORDPRESS.- My writings range from reviews to editorials or to travel observations.- I also make recommendations related to policy--having both a-strong background in teaching foreign languages and degrees in teaching in history and the social sciences.--As a Midwesterner, I also write on religion and living out ones faith whether it be as a Christian, Muslim or Buddhist perspective."

On my own home page, I also provide information for language learners and travelers http://www.geocities.com/eslkevin/-,- http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/-& http://alone.gnn.tv/

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