Saturday, November 23, 2019

The Consequences of the Berlin Wall



A year before the Berlin Wall came down, I had the opportunity to cross Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin.

If anything, from my experience, Johan Norberg underplays the differences between the two sides of the wall.

West Berlin was a bustling Western European city, East Berlin was gray and drab, both the people and buildings. It was a shock. The cars in East Berlin were Yugos that reminded me of American go-karts. People's clothes were gray and fit poorly. I didn't see anyone smile.

I have often thought that anyone who could experience the difference a wall and a different economic structure could make, in what was once a unified liberal city, could never become, or continue to be, a communist.

-RW

5 comments:

  1. Correction: no one who has IQ higher than a cabbage head's can be a communist. Of course, there's an unending supply of scoundrels pretending to be communists to prey on the fools.

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    1. I know plenty of high IQ commies. They're not stupid. They're confused and angry.

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    2. Lots of intelligent people don't engage in heavy thinking. If they did, they wouldn't be Marxists or Commies.

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  2. Yeah, but that wasn't true communism.

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