http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/6483804/Forget-Guy-Fawkes—remember-remember-the-Ninth-of-November-for-the-fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall.html

Another great explanation of why we should remember that great year of liberation: 1989:

. . . [W]e celebrate next week the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – the ultimate triumph of simple human instincts over an evil and degenerate system. Without the Fall of the Wall, millions of people in eastern Europe would still be living in terror of the Stasi or the Securitate.
. . .

. . . We should remember that magnificent collapse with songs and cheers, because we are now still enduring a recession caused by the defects of free-market capitalism.

It is precisely now, when the public mood is so bitter towards bankers, so hostile to profit, so seemingly brassed off with the very idea of wealth creation that we should remember how ghastly, grim and unworkable was the alternative – state-controlled socialism. It was a moral disaster, a system that extolled equality but entrenched the privileges of an unelected elite who luxuriated in their dachas and their Zil limos, roaring down their reserved lanes and splashing the people with contemptuous sludge. It was a cultural and artistic wasteland, a regime that promoted the kitsch and camp of socialist realism and whose only literary legacy is the handful of books by authors brave enough to denounce the regime. It was a complete and utter environmental catastrophe, as anyone who travelled behind the Iron Curtain will remember. I don’t just mean Chernobyl; I mean the cynical way in which socialist planning obliged human beings to endure the proximity of some of the filthiest factories in the world, the roiling clouds of smoke that seeded the warts and the cancers on the skin and in the lungs and the eyes of an innocent public.

I recommend reading the whole thing.

Again: Heres to 1989, the year of true liberation.

Page 262: ‘One of the objectives [of Euro-Communism] was to prepare the ground, in coordination with Bloc policy in general, for an eventual “liberalisation” in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and a major drive to promote the dissolution of NATO and the Warsaw Pact and the withdrawal of the American military presence from a neutral, socialist Europe’.

published Sept 2009
Mary Dejevsky: Nato’s dissolution is long overdue
If the alliance cannot prevail in Afghanistan, what price its continuation at all?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-dejevsky/mary-dejevsky-natos-dissolution-is-long-overdue-1782938.html

from reset button time:
Obama said reinvigorated ties with Moscow must be “consistent with NATO membership and consistent with the need to send a clear signal throughout Europe that we are going to continue to abide by the central belief … that countries who seek and aspire to join NATO are able to join NATO.”

if everyone is a member of nato, then nato is meaningless as if it was disbanded.

the war in afghanistan is not a US war its a NATO war… and his dithering and such is not about affecting the US as much as its to get NATO out of the picture.

perhaps he wants the Rapacki Plan?

you dont know what the repacki plan is?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810722,00.html

its about german reunification… 1958..

and yet, so timely

[for a defunct ideology there are no more free countries... ALL are socialist]

the wall did not fall because soviets collapsed, the wall fell because they re-organized and would then be able to freely move from coutnry to country, freely move material and money, and have open easy access to other states secrets.

it was not a collapse, it was a restructuring…
peristroika… restructuring

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when you read this remember it was written 5 years BEFORE The berlin wall fell. (up to the day it happened, everyone didnt believe it would happen in their lifetimes).

when you read it, remember neo liberalism was not a movement yet that remembered its roots with walter lippman and those other communists.

the EU was not in existence yet…

Pages 327-328: ‘The Communist strategists are now poised to enter into the
final, offensive phase of the long-range policy, entailing a joint struggle for the complete
triumph of Communism. Given the multiplicity of parties in power, the close
links between them, and the opportunities they have had to broaden their bases and
build up experienced cadres, the Communist strategists are equipped, in pursuing
their policy, to engage in manoeuvres and stratagems beyond the imagination of
Marx or the practical reach of Lenin and unthinkable to Stalin. Among such… stratagems
are the introduction of false liberalisation in Eastern Europe and, probably, in
the Soviet Union and the exhibition of spurious independence on the part of the
regimes in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Poland’.

France and Italy, under united front governments, would throw in their lot with Germany and the Soviet Union. Britain would be confronted with a choice between a neutral Europe and the United States.

to be published in 1984, means to have it written before that.

how is the czech polish thing with obama?
hows is the marxist in office
how is the treaty signing in december

the more you read the books the more you end up realizing what your seeing.

like pelosi being afraid of tea parties. why?

Pages 241-242:’The creation of a false, controlled opposition movement like the
dissident movement serves internal and external strategic purposes.

It creates a cadre of figures who are
well known in the West and who can be used in the future as the leaders and supporters
of a “multi-Party system” under Communism. “Dissident” trade unions and
intellectuals can be used to promote solidarity with their Western counterparts and
engage them in joint campaigns for disarmament and the reform of Western “military-
industrial complexes”. In the long run the Western individuals and groups
involved will face the choice of admitting that their support for dissidents was mistaken
or accepting that Communism has undergone a radical change, making “convergence”
an acceptable, and perhaps desirable, prospect’.

Zelaya/∅bama

Heres a quote from the article:

The consensus Year of Revolution for most of our lifetimes has been 1968, with its political assassinations, its Parisian protests, and a youth-culture rebellion that the baby boomers will never tire of telling us about. But as the preeminent modern Central European historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote in a 2008 essay, 1989 “ended communism in Europe, the Soviet empire, the division of Germany, and an ideological and geopolitical struggle…that had shaped world politics for half a century. It was, in its geopolitical results, as big as 1945 or 1914. By comparison, ’68 was a molehill.”

Maybe this should be a focus for conservatives and anti-Communists of any stripe: to keep the memory of that liberating year alive.

Heres to 1989 !!