Germany still split years later
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East and West Germans stand atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 10, 1989, the day after the wall opened.
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In the past 20 years, Germans have built up around the lasting scars left by the Berlin Wall.
Potsdamer Platz was once a wasteland and a desolate part of the border. Now movie theaters, shopping centers and restaurants stand where the wall once stood, and the complex is buzzing with energy.
About a half-mile away, a Starbucks and the new American Embassy stand on Pariser Platz next to the iconic Brandenburg Gate.
The once ideal socialist square Alexander Platz now hosts a huge indoor mall, along with other shopping and entertainment. The iconic Fernsehturm, or TV Tower, still marks the area where communist buildings stand side by side with KFC and McDonald ...
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chuck62 says...
This is an interesting lesson in how people can be deceived by a government's empty promises of a blissful life without all the worries and inconveniences of personal freedom. No worries about losing your job, no struggles to succeed, no threats of failure. All of life's essentials are free, that is, if life's essentials are all you aspire to and you don't include the cost of losing one's freedom. So why, after hainvg seen this unfold before our very eyes, are we still so willing to trade such a large part of our personal freedoms (and the difficulties they sometimes bring) for the promise of what we all know will be a mediocre government-run healthcare system?
November 9, 2009 at 3:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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