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The Corner on National Review Online: Darn That Reagan -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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Somehow I doubt this woman is in the majority http://bit.ly/1iosrU 8 days ago |
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This goes someway to correcting rewritten history of unification RT @ocicat_bengals East Germans lost much in 1989 http://bit.ly/1iosrU 9 days ago |
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RT @RisingHegemon: With all this jingoism we should remember that German reunification was a tough transition http://bit.ly/1H95bv #p2 10 days ago |
Darn That Reagan -- By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner on National Review Online —
Some woman named Bruni de la Motte has fascinating essay over at the Guardian on what a terrible thing it was for the Berlin Wall to come down. It begins with this paragraph: ...
Humor break…(The Sanity Inspector)
protein wisdom —
Humor break…(The Sanity Inspector) Funny spoof in The Onion about how tragic the fall of the Berlin Wall was.…What? It’s not The Onion? Well, who else would say such a thing, then? Posted by The Sanity Inspector @ ...
East Germany’s Gone – Boo Hoo
QandO —
... You have to read this one to believe it. Bruni de la Motte, a child of the GDR, tells us how hard life has been for her since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The irony is that while she tries to convince of all that was good and wonderful about her former homeland, she never mentions the fact that if she’d have written a whine like this while a citizen of the GDR we’d most likely not even know she ever existed. Nothing like romanticizing a terror state. ...
20 Years After the Fall of the Wall
Solomonia —
... The Guardian celebrates by printing the ravings of Bruni de la Motte, a woman nostalgic for the good old days of the Stasi. I kid you not: East Germans lost much in 1989 ...
Moonbat Professor Laments the Collapse of the Berlin Wall
Moonbattery —
... The Academic Elite in the USA and Eurotopia have a genuine love and affection for brutal, oppressive Communist regimes. Castro and Chavez are heroes to them. And it should come as little surprise that a feminist professor takes to the pages of the Guardian to lament the Fall of the Berlin Wall. ...
Twenty Years Ago - The News Conference That Toppled The Berlin Wall
Wizbang —
... , to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And of course there are those who still lament the end of the German Democratic Republic, and its state-guaranteed employment. It's truly frightening that some people would willfully exchange freedom for terror in order to receive a meager handout from the state.
Ah, the good old Stasi!
The Anchoress —
... The ‘nets are abuzz over this interesting column in the Guardian, UK; it is written by a woman named Bruni de la Motte, who kind of misses that old Berlin Wall and her East German existence: ...
The Most Vile Column of the Day: Berlin Wall Edition
Hit & Run —
... Was getting a Polish translator for Gen. Jaruzelski proving
difficult? Did the emails to the long-dead Comrade Honecker keep
bouncing? I mean, I expected this from The Guardian (and
boy did they deliver), but I was
rather surprised that The New York Times
weighed in the Berlin Wall anniversary with this ...
With A Backhoe, Not A Bang
Winds of Change.NET —
Today marks the anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin wall, and with it, the unwinding of the Cold War.
Michael Totten beats me to the punch in suggesting we commemorate it by watching 'The Lives of Others' - a movie that explores the true cost of totalitarianism.
Even if some pine for it.
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The Agitator —
... Your pathetic commie apology column of the day. Yes. Those poor East Germans, being thrust into a free society against their will! That must be why so many West Berliners risked their lives crossing the wall to live in Stazi paradise. ...
