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The reputation held by the Berlin Wall before it was ‘torn down’ twenty years ago was largely a product of propaganda machines. Clearly, it was just another Cold War myth. It played neatly into a Cold War cliché about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny. ‘In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from [...]

In Russia, domestic economic health is not synonymous with national power. The country has always had a dysfunctional economy. ‘By contrast, its military power has always been disproportionately strong.’ The Russian security machinery devoted a bigger chunk of its economy to military power. The Russian government has been able to do this ‘Moscow [...]

Widespread celebrations, concerts and memorials across Germany will mark the commemoration day for the fall of the Berlin Wall, that pulled down some 20 years ago. The communism infected citizens of East Germany poured in to the U.S supported West Germany on that fateful night of November 9th, 1989, when the wall dividing the two Germany’s came [...]