Posted on 02/18/2019 5:58:21 PM PST by Hojczyk
Er … suuuuure it is. The only way anyone could assert this with a straight face, let alone with the smug dismissal Ocasio-Cortez displays here, is to be entirely ignorant of the post-war history of Berlin, Germany, and the deep desire to flee the communist system in both. A quick search on “Berlin Wall history” for the woefully uneducated would land on this entry in Encylopaedia Britannica:
In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals. Their loss threatened to destroy the economic viability of the East German state. In response, East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans’ access to West Berlin and hence West Germany. That barrier, the Berlin Wall, was first erected on the night of August 12–13, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer (“Peoples’ Chamber”).
The Berlin Wall’s “moral abomination” came from its intent to trap people inside a communist system when they wanted to flee — at which it largely succeeded for its 28-year lifespan. East Germany arrested more than 5,000 people attempting to cross over it into West Berlin and freedom, and they shot and killed at least 191 people in the attempt. Only 5,000 crossed over into freedom during its three-decade abomination. They didn’t care a whit if anyone wanted to enter East Berlin.
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Uhhh, where to begin......
Where does one begin?
Uh, I’ve been on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Yes, she IS that frigin’ stupid.
We don’t want to talk about the wall right now. We want to talk about your close, personal friend Jussie Smollett’s fake claim of assault. What do you think about that story, AOC?
If Sandy is interested, I can provide a list of HISTORICALLY ACCURATE books, movies and/or FLASH CARDS for her use.
What a dope. BUT - keep on keepin’ on, Communist Barbie! *SNORT*
I have four walls making up my house. They are to keep people in, not out. Just ask all the socialists who are kept prisoner here.
whatever school gave this child a diploma and then a degree, need to have their certifications pulled. Their students are know-nothings and prove it every day
New contest. Is there anyone dumber than AOC?
I’m starting to think she’s a Right Wing plant...
“She is an idiot’s idiot with a little girl voice that gives expressive form to her thoughts and dreams.” Scott Johnson, Powerline
Trouble is that more than half the voters on the US have no idea what, who, or why the Berlin wall was there.
I had no idea that we SHOOT anyone daring to enter our country illegally.
She doesn’t know the difference between a prison and unlawful entry.
Nobody tries to break into a prison. People break out of a prison.
AOC is trying too hard, and the harder she tries, the stupider she sounds.
This skinny, buck toothed, big mouthed ex-barmaid likes to wave her ignorance in the face ofAmerica like a huge red flag flapping in a stiff breeze. Pitiful jerk.
... or ... I had no idea we shoot anyone daring to LEAVE our country.
She probably thinks that the one in Germany was to keep the people in the West from invading her socialist paradise.
Anyone have any evidence she even passed the 4th grade
Actually, that was the funniest line in the German film, "Goodbye, Lenin."
"Mother, the West Germans wanted to live under communism so badly that they knocked down the wall to get in."
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