Posted on 10/17/2009 1:58:43 PM PDT by neverdem
The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more?
On August 23, 1989, officials from the newly reformed and soon-to-be-renamed Communist Party of Hungary ceased policing the country's militarized border with Austria. Some 13,000 East Germans, many of whom had been vacationing at nearby Lake Balaton, fled across the frontier to the free world. It was the largest breach of the Iron Curtain in a generation, and it kicked off a remarkable chain of events that ended 11 weeks later with the righteous citizen dismantling of the Berlin Wall...
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As for American voters, one can only hope enough have woken up to wrest control from the Democrat communists in 2010 but the Dems are planning to use vote fraud and manipulating the census to try to keep that from happening.
The Democrat communists want to keep the appearance of a democracy and a workable economy until they have secured their perpetual re-election and, once they do, the happy faces will come off and they will rule like North Koreans.
They can't cheat if it's not close. Acorn is out of the 2010 Census. Reapportionment from the Census doesn't happen until 2011.
Communism was not defeated. What was defeated were communists in charge of a few countries. Communism is alive and will and always will be as long as there is envy, greed, hatred etc.. and the ideologues willing to exploit it to attain total power. Obama is the absolute proof of this...
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