30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, chaos not freedom reigns in our world

John Wight
Nov 7 · 5 min read

Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that most concrete and evocative of symbols of a Cold War that raged for five decades between Soviet communism and Western capitalism after WWII, only the most unreconstructed Western ideologue would dare still claim the event as a triumph of good over evil.

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