Tag: Berlin Wall
How We Forfeited the Fruits of Cold War Victory
Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
These, then, are three of the historic blunders that have forfeited for us the unique position America held at the close of the Cold War.
As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and world prestige.
President George H.W. Bush had just sent an army of half a million men to expel, in a 100-hour campaign, Saddam Hussein’s invading army from Kuwait. The world, including Russia, China and Iran, had supported U.S.-led military action to overturn Iraq’s aggression.
Our Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union, had just collapsed and disintegrated into 15 nations. The Warsaw Pact had dissolved. All of Eastern Europe was free. We were the sole surviving superpower.
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They’re building a wall, but not the one you think
Guest Post by Simon Black
Bernd Lünser was by all accounts a popular, promising student.
He was studying civil engineering at the State Engineering School of Architecture in West Berlin in 1961.
Unfortunately, he lived in East Berlin. And during the summer break of that year, the Berlin Wall was completed, shutting off access from Western administered West Berlin from Soviet controlled East Berlin.
Suddenly the 22 year old Lünser found his prospects for a good education and prosperous life dashed.
In a desperate attempt at freedom, Bernd Lünser attempted to escape over the wall; he was one of the first East Berliners to do so.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Berlin is divided – 1961
Shortly after midnight on this day in 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Berlin is divided – 1961
Shortly after midnight on this day in 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city.
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