Today is one that deserves both somber reflection and meaningful celebration! Twenty years ago, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall, both a tool and symbol of tyranny and poverty was torn down. All over the world, students are commemorating this date with fake walls to tear down, paper walls filled with graffiti expressing their hatred for oppression, speakers who survived the USSR and can speak to the atrocities it committed, and a host of other events. SFL will report on what groups are doing, but it’s important to reflect upon what the Berlin Wall meant to those who lived through it and what its destruction means for us twenty years later:
Dr. Tom G. Palmer, “Why Socialism Collapsed in Eastern Europe”
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, “Twenty Years Later: Why the Berlin Wall Fell”
Matt Welch, “The Unknown War”
Tearing Down the Wall Campaign, Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Dr. Edward Hudgins, “The Berlin Wall Then and Now”
