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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (7350)	12/5/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: MonsieurGonzo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11051

DJ:" toujours le provacateur " CNN.com asks this question: " What were your reactions to the fall of the Berlin wall, and whom do you credit for the achievement ? " - and this was my post, fwiw - ` The fall of the Berlin Wall was one symbolic result of economic collapse within the greater Soviet Union. It is difficult to characterize economic collapse as an "achievement" - in particular, by any effort from West or East Germany, where the event took place. Indeed by most accounts, the vast majority of East German workers were better off under Democratic Socialism, as they are now simply "survivors", eeking out their existence under Capitalism: many "EastFolk" appear destined to become 'a lost generation' - bewildered, and exploited by others. What gives us hope is not the re-unification of Germany but, the assimilation of this new German state into the European Union. For without this moderating influence, we would certainly face yet another programme of eugenics by military force wrought by the most violent culture of the twentieth century. iow, folks - had we (Americans) lost ~20 million men, women and children - as did the Russians - to a ruthless aggressor, a foreign invader that built factories in which to gas and burn trainloads of our civilians: erecting a mere Berlin Wall after such an experience seems almost benign in retrospect :-/ ...and the fall of this Wall nothing less than the last teardrop of a great human tragedy. ` -Steve