by Did67 » 07/11/09, 16:20
Not so long ago, I reacted against a title with ... "scam".
We must not have the same dictionary! For me, a scam is a guy on Ebay who sells you an Ipod and when you receive it, it's not an Ipod, but a pale copy made in China ...
That the fall of the Berlin Wall was the end of a long evolution is obvious.
Whether ALSO geopolitics, of course (or you have to be naive!).
Let it be just that, it would be ridiculously reductive. This is also the development that began during the Prague Spring. It is the hatching of a seed which has its germ in the death of Jan Pallach. He is, like it or not, a Gobatchew who understood that he could not infinitely hold a failed system with the military. And before him, the Hungarian Prime Minister whose name I cannot find. And it is even a monumental mess of somewhat shabby politicians (the German Chabowki reading the press release live that he had not read and "improvising", in response to a question, a "yes, right now "without realizing what he was saying). And that because there was "fermented" popular pressure in the (Protestant) churches, catalyzed by Gorbachev ... All this despite a lagging France ...
I may give pride of place to Gorbachev, but I don't think things would have happened like that with Stalin ... even if the system had been so bankrupt ...
However, I think that it was not as orchestrated as that, that the aspiration of peoples to live freer was real and not remote-controlled, that the Stasi, there was fed up ...
My convictin, but I am not a historian, is that the German reunification (which symbolizes the fall of the wall), was, at the beginning of the events, not at all envisaged within these deadlines! There, it's more of a Kohl poker stroke ...
In short, I personally find it difficult to put this under a title like "scam" !!! Also out of respect, for example, for the 300 or so deaths during failed attempts to breach the wall.
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