On this day 15 years ago people were sitting on top of the Berlin wall. Hitting it with the biggest hammers they had. Every splinter of concrete that flew off it was a small victory. People. Not their elected or unelected representatives were out on the streets showing what they wanted. I know enough people that lived just on the “right” side of the border where you could see over into Thüringen, where now when I go running in the forest there, there’s a 400m wide stretch of trees which are still only about 10 years old. Its amazing that it is fifteen, 15! years ago and most of those former Soviet satellite states are now in NATO. And frankly, I don’t care if people think that it was the work of the Gipper, rapproachment, or merely a setback on the inevitable path to global communist utopia - so long as it happened. Incidentally, as Claudia at a Fistful of Euros points out, November 9th seems to be a big day in German history anyway….
Just noticed: Tim Worstall has written a piece with remarkably similar sentiments to my own just, as ever, much more eloquently.
German Word For Today: “Hasselhof” - I’ve been looking for freedom from awful music
Song playing as this was published: Depeche Mode “Sisters of night”
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