Move underway to rescue East Germany from anti-communist historians
Move underway to rescue East Germany from anti-communist historians
May 10, 2021
Erasing East Germany: The ship named Berlin Capital of the DDR has the initials of the German Democratic Republic painted over at a
shipyard in Hamburg in September 1990. (Photo: Christian Eggers)
A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the socialist states of Eastern Europe gave way to a capitalism that forced its way in – the first salvo came when Hungary opened its border with Austria.
Three months later, on the 15th of June, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told the press in Bonn (West Germany) that the Berlin Wall “could disappear when the preconditions which brought it about cease to exist.” He did not list the preconditions, but he said, “Nothing is permanent under the Moon.” On the 9th of November, 1989, the Berlin Wall
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Move underway to rescue East Germany from anti-communist historians May 3, 2021 1:02 PM CDT By Vijay Prashad
Erasing East Germany: The ship named Berlin Capital of the DDR has the initials of the German Democratic Republic painted over at a shipyard in Hamburg in September 1990. | Christian Eggers / AP
A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the socialist countries states of Eastern Europe gave way to a capitalism that forced its way in the first salvo came when Hungary opened its border with Austria.
by Vijay Prashad / April 29th, 2021
A mass rally with the Free German Youth that marked the founding of the German Democratic Republic in the Soviet Occupation Zone, October 1949.
A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the communist states of Eastern Europe dissolved, with the first salvo fired when Hungary opened its border. On 3 March 1989, Hungary’s last communist prime minister Miklós Németh asked the USSR’s last President Mikhail Gorbachev whether the border to Western Europe could be opened. ‘We have a strict regime on our borders’, Gorbachev told Németh, ‘but we are also becoming more open’. Three months later, on 15 June, Gorbachev told the press in Bonn (West Germany) that the Berlin Wall ‘could disappear when the preconditions, which brought it about, cease to exist’. He did not list the preconditions, but he said, ‘Nothing is permanent under the Moon’. O
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