gatewaypundit.firstthings.com - 13 days ago
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The students of Young Americans for Liberty hosted a rally to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at noon today on the lawn outside the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building at Washington University.
Students constructed a memorial to the victims of socialism as a stark ...
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BERLIN WALL FREEDOM MEMORIAL shut down by Washington University as too offensive? Good grief. (Via…
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BERLIN WALL FREEDOM MEMORIAL shut down by Washington University as too offensive? Good grief. (Via Divas For Geeks).
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... . Related, also at Gateway: Wash U Shuts Down Freedom Memorial on 20 Year Anniversary of End of Communism- It Was Too Offensive (Video) ...
University Shuts Down Anti-Communism Display
Moonbattery —
... To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, a conservative group at Washington University in St. Louis constructed a gulag exhibit to remind students of the denial of human rights under communism. This did not sit well with university apparatchiks, who quickly shut the exhibit down, labeling it "offensive." ...
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