by Jason Stotts
As the United States continues its descent into socialism, I’d like to take a minute and remind everyone about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (11/9/09). For those who don’t know (and I sincerely hope this is a null class), the Berlin Wall was the wall that separated East (socialist) Berlin from West (capitalist) Berlin after WWII.
The lesson that I think we all need to remember from the Berlin wall is that while capitalistic West Berlin experienced an “economic miracle” and had a very high standard of living, socialist East Berlin was overrun with poverty. The situation was so bad in East Berlin that thousands risked their lives to flee to the freedom and prosperity of the West.
Let us not forget history and the lessons we can learn from it, lest we are doomed to repeat them.