Posted on 11/08/2014 6:57:53 AM PST by jmcenanly
25 Year Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Some schools don’t even teach history. Others teach a revisionist history and they won’t bother with something like the fall of the Berlin Wall because it happened in a foreign country, so who cares what went on over there?
And since teachers unions are communist, do they really want to teach our kids about a communist defeat? Might be embarrassing.
West of the Wall--Toni Fisher (1962)
I am in a debate on an international forum, a guy equated the Berlin Wall to building a border fence between the US and Mexico.
His position is that the Berlin Wall was built to keep capitalists out, not East Berliners in.
History in revision.
What makes it even worse is that the guy is a US Citizen living in the USA.
I remember that song well, and I always liked Toni Fisher.
***His position is that the Berlin Wall was built to keep capitalists out, not East Berliners in.***
Vladimer Posner said the same thing years ago on RADIO MOSCOW (short wave). Look at how the towers and barbed wire are stationed and placed. It would be like Leavenworth or BIG MAC designed to keep people out, instead of IN if that claim were so.
And yet, the ONLY people I ever heard of being shot were East Berliners trying to flee East Berlin.
There was a famous series of photos in LIFE many years ago as the wall was being built.
An East German soldier is guarding an open area to keep people from fleeing.
He looks around, sees no one, drops his submachine gun and flees to the West.
as a 22 tear old, I spent a day in East Berlin 1973. Rather than go in via the safe and predictable Check Point Charlie, I went in via subway at the one "open" station accessible from W Berlin.
I can assure you, the wall was not to keep capitalism out. It was to keep freedom out
And the day was such an eye opener to this long hair ersatz hippie, I never made a Democrat vote since !
In 1972, I visited East Berlin through the "safe and predictable" Checkpoint Charlie. Before I was allowed to enter the country, a border policeman sat me down at a desk and interviewed me. He examined every item in my wallet and wanted to know what it was. Among other things, I had to explain my Social Security card.
I had a movie camera with me and asked him if it would be OK to photograph Hitler's bunker, which stood right next to the Wall. He replied that it was a relic of such a terrible time that no one would want to photograph it. I took the hint and didn't film it.
Our interview was in German, and the fact that I knew the language may have brought me under greater scrutiny.
While I was there, I went to a bookstore and bought a book on the history of the world from the Communist perspective.
I also saw a woman knocking on a door and yelling, "Otkritye!" which, I thought, didn't sound very German (it means "Open Up" in Russian).
Anyone in the Dallas/Ft Worth area can see a piece of the wall in the grounds of the Hilton Anatole hotel on Stemmons Frwy.
German teens who tour our Florida Keys Air Museum know about the Wall, and even more surprising, they are taught about the Berlin airlift that saved the city from Russian blockades after WWII.
“How many students today are even aware that this happened, or that a nation had to surround a free city to prevent its own citizens from seeking freedom?”
Ah, that was a brief, shining moment of freedom before the forces of darkness and oppression returned - but this time, they came from the West!
“I am in a debate on an international forum, a guy equated the Berlin Wall to building a border fence between the US and Mexico.
His position is that the Berlin Wall was built to keep capitalists out, not East Berliners in.”
Utter and complete nonsense. Even the GDR admitted they had to stop the bleeding of people leaving from the hole in Berlin.
Comparing a US Border wall to the Berlin Wall the proper analogy is, putting windows and doors in your house compared to putting a dungeon in the basement. Its moral to keep unwanted people out, immoral to trap people inside.
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