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On Mar 1, 9:45 am, dave wrote:
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Saturday, 4. November 1989
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The center of East Berlin has been entirely filled with demonstrators
since the early morning. Traffic has come to a complete standstill.
Actors wearing green and yellow sashes bearing the slogan »No Violence«
are on hand to keep order, and are accepted goodnaturedly by everyone. A
security partnership with the People's Police has been established.

There are almost no uniforms in sight, not even in front of the People's
Chamber and the Council of State building, which in the course of five
hours will see hundreds of thousands file past, demanding freedom of
press and assembly and radical reform. According to official estimates,
more than half a million people take part in this, the largest protest
demonstration in East German history. It concludes with a rally on
Alexanderplatz that opens with actor Ulrich Mühe expressing what
everyone is feeling: »It was just wonderful.« East Berlin has never
witnessed so much shared determination and imaginative spontaneity, in
such a radical yet calm atmosphere.

Author Christa Wolf points out that the revolutionary movement has also
liberated speech: »What was so difficult to articulate before suddenly
rolls freely from our tongues. We are amazed at what we have obviously
been thinking for so long, and what we now call out to each other,
Democracy - now or never!, by which we mean power to the people.«
Even though the difficult phase of restructuring still lies ahead, all
agree on this day that East Germany has changed more in the past four
weeks than in all the previous four decades. November 4 becomes a
milestone. The SED leadership can no longer ignore the demands of the
masses; there is no going back to old methods of rule.

© 1999, Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin

Eastern Europeans thank President Ronald Reagan, Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II for their freedom from
Communist tyranny:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/

In your warped little world, perhaps. It was West German TV that roused
the Berliners; Gorbachev was already dismantling the Soviet Union when
the Wall came down. Reagan and Thatcher were a sideshow. Lech Walesa
did more than the Polish Pope.- Hide quoted text -

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bwaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHA
Yet another Neo-Commie propaganda lie!

My gosh, are you an imbecile.

He lives in Daves World!

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