Comments on: Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/09/commemorating-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: grenadier http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/09/commemorating-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-4598 grenadier Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:35:34 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7436#comment-4598 My personal experience: I was born in 1931, old enough to remember living in Nazi occupied Europe. Although I was a child, I do remember the oppression of the totalitarian state, and have loathed it ever since. (Explains my disdain for (so-called) Human Rights Commissions and its federal Kommissar "FRAU" Jennifer Lynch. And her Ontario counterpart - failed Toronto mayor Kommissar Barbara Hall.) My wife and I stood at the wall in the summer of '89, We were behind it in East Berlin for one afternoon, and the feeling of oppression was palpable and reminded us of the war years. When we watched the wall coming down on TV a few months later both of us were reminded of our liberation in May 1945, and we both cried of emotion, literally. My personal experience: I was born in 1931, old enough to remember living in Nazi occupied Europe. Although I was a child, I do remember the oppression of the totalitarian state, and have loathed it ever since. (Explains my disdain for (so-called) Human Rights Commissions and its federal Kommissar “FRAU” Jennifer Lynch. And her Ontario counterpart – failed Toronto mayor Kommissar Barbara Hall.)

My wife and I stood at the wall in the summer of ’89, We were behind it in East Berlin for one afternoon, and the feeling of oppression was palpable and reminded us of the war years.

When we watched the wall coming down on TV a few months later both of us were reminded of our liberation in May 1945, and we both cried of emotion, literally.

]]> By: midas http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/09/commemorating-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-4596 midas Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:28:24 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7436#comment-4596 "Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." Anonymous. (Unfortunately, the rest of us will go along for the ride, like it or not.) Thanks! “Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.”
Anonymous.

(Unfortunately, the rest of us will go along for the ride, like it or not.)

Thanks!

]]> By: Hanam http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/09/commemorating-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-4595 Hanam Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:53:20 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7436#comment-4595 Thank you for commemorating. For some people it really meant a lot, but (unfortunately) there are still some who do not understand. The history of the Cold War is not important to too many, even if similarities are encroaching upon our free society as we speak. Thank you for commemorating. For some people it really meant a lot, but (unfortunately) there are still some who do not understand. The history of the Cold War is not important to too many, even if similarities are encroaching upon our free society as we speak.

]]> By: Fashionable Earth http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/09/commemorating-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-4592 Fashionable Earth Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:31:11 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7436#comment-4592 20 years later and the East is back in vogue :) http://fashionableearth.org/blog/2009/11/09/20-jahre/ 20 years later and the East is back in vogue :) http://fashionableearth.org/blog/2009/11/09/20-jahre/

]]> By: Lauri Friesen http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/09/commemorating-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-4591 Lauri Friesen Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:56:30 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7436#comment-4591 I agree with Andrea that George Jonas (himself a refugee from Soviet Communism) gets it exactly right. What interests me more, though, are all those articles about this 20th anniversary that bemoan the loss of the Berlin Wall and the life it protected. I find it hard to wrap my head around the notion that the life lived behind the Wall and the Iron Curtain was in anyway preferable to the rough-and-tumble of individual freedom. It would be easier, admittedly, if any of the promises made by the Soviet and its puppet governments of an economic and social utopia had been delivered on. But they weren't. I mean, how much clearer can the Nanny State mini-tyrants be about their desire to ensure we all live exactly the same life and, if we don't like it, to have the power to destroy those who would oppose them? I agree with Andrea that George Jonas (himself a refugee from Soviet Communism) gets it exactly right. What interests me more, though, are all those articles about this 20th anniversary that bemoan the loss of the Berlin Wall and the life it protected. I find it hard to wrap my head around the notion that the life lived behind the Wall and the Iron Curtain was in anyway preferable to the rough-and-tumble of individual freedom. It would be easier, admittedly, if any of the promises made by the Soviet and its puppet governments of an economic and social utopia had been delivered on. But they weren’t.

I mean, how much clearer can the Nanny State mini-tyrants be about their desire to ensure we all live exactly the same life and, if we don’t like it, to have the power to destroy those who would oppose them?

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