FLASHBACK:
"Europeans mark anniversary of fall of Iron Curtain" by Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press | June 28, 2009
BUDAPEST - European leaders yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain, often described as the first crack in the Berlin Wall and one of the key episodes leading to the end of communism in Eastern Europe.
In Budapest, the presidents of Germany, Austria, Finland, Slovenia, and Switzerland, as well as high-ranking officials from Poland, Britain, and more than 20 other countries, participated in a commemorative session at the Hungarian Parliament and a gala event at the Hungarian State Opera House. On June 27, 1989, the then-foreign ministers of Hungary, Gyula Horn, and Austria, Alois Mock, cut through barbed wire on the border between the two countries, putting a symbolic end to a physical and psychological boundary....
See: Germany 1940, Israel 2009
Hungary had begun to dismantle the Iron Curtain nearly two months earlier, on May 2, 1989 - partly because border guards said it was in such poor condition that even small animals were setting off false alarms along the electrified fence. Still, pictures of the event were published around the world and inspired tens of thousands of East Germans to leave their country, find temporary refuge in Hungary, Poland, or Czechoslovakia and wait for an opportunity to travel to West Germany.
By the end of the summer, thousands of East German “tourists’’ were living in tents on the grounds of the West German Embassy in Budapest and in several other locations around the city, including church yards and the site of a communist youth camp.... Hungary finally decided to let all East Germans out from Sept. 11, 1989. Within two months, on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany’s reunification was formalized in October 1990.
Yesterday, German President Horst Koehler thanked the Hungarians for their solidarity with the East Germans and their contributions to German unity. Austrian President Heinz Fischer drew parallels between the 1989 transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the current protests in Iran.
The AGENDA-PUSHING NEVER ENDS, even for a party.
“1989 was a dramatic year but it had a peaceful outcome,’’ Fischer said. “No dictatorship, however solid it may seem, can ever feel truly safe.’’
Yes, the ONLY TIME in HISTORY an EMPIRE PEACEABLY CRUMBLED!
Let us hope AmeriKa's will crumble the same way, for the world's sake.
“These were events which can motivate people in Iran to feel that their democratic opinions can be expressed,’’ Fischer said, drawing applause from hundreds of guests in the upper chamber of Hungary’s Parliament on the banks of the Danube River.
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Related: Two decades later, repainted murals on Berlin Wall celebrate freedom
Also see: The Hypocrisy of Celebrating the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Ignoring Israel's "Iron Wall"The globalists are crowing about there triumph, too:
"Clinton urges action against global threats; Uses Berlin Wall’s 20th anniversary of fall as impetus" by Matthew Lee, Associated Press | November 9, 2009
BERLIN - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans yesterday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to action against new global threats....
Did she TURN TOWARDS PERSIA when she said that?
As the Obama administration looks to often reluctant European allies to bolster their NATO forces in Afghanistan, Clinton said today’s commemoration of Nov. 9, 1989, the night “when history pierced the concrete and concertina wire,’’ must look forward and not back.
And here she is at a CELEBRATION of the PAST!
She MUST BE DRINKING AGAINT!
Did she TURN TOWARDS ISRAEL when she said that?
“Our history did not end the night the wall came down, it began anew,’’ she told a group of US and European dignitaries while accepting a Freedom Award on behalf of the American people from the Atlantic Council, a group that promotes trans-Atlantic ties.
Yeah, it is a GLOBALIST GROUP! Wait until you see WHO was THERE!
The moment the festivities begin “should be a call to action, not just a commemoration of past actions,’’ Clinton said. “That call should spur us to continue our cooperation and look for new ways that we can meet the challenges that freedom faces now. We owe it to ourselves and to those who yearn for the same freedoms that are enjoyed and even taken for granted in Berlin today.’’
This is the same crap the Bush administration was pedaling, if not worse.
Clinton praised US-European collaboration on ending the world financial crisis as well as steps to cooperate on global warming. She also hailed NATO security operations, from Afghanistan to fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Obviously all part of the NWO!!!
But she said the spirit of the Berlin Wall’s destruction - the symbolic end to the Cold War - had to be reinforced. “We need to form an even stronger partnership to bring down the walls of the 21st century and to confront those who hide behind them: suicide bombers, those who murder and maim girls whose only wish is to go to school, leaders who chose their own fortune over the fortune of their people.’’
Oh, she is PLASTERED!!!
Related: The USraeli Position on Palestine
Hillary Clinton Drones On and On
All this CODED LANGUAGE from the Zionist-serving globalist tool!
The walls of the 21st century, huh? Like ISRAEL'S APARTHEID WALL?
As for the looting leaders, she needs to take a look in the mirror.
(Blog editor's note: after thinking about the issue for a while, maybe the wall in Palestine is a good thing. After all, it will also SEAL IN the ISRAELIS)
Clinton will lead the US delegation in today’s ceremonies in Berlin. Her visit to Europe and Asia also will focus on nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea. Other US foreign policy veterans at yesterday’s event included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and ex-national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
So they are over there congratulating themselves on their triumph of 20 years ago -- and PLANNING the NEXT WORLD WAR!!!!
Germans will mark the anniversary today with a memorial service for the 136 people killed trying to cross over the divide from 1961 to 1989, as well as candlelight vigils and music by Beethoven and Bon Jovi. A thousand towering plastic foam dominoes will be placed along the wall’s route and tipped over. On a cold night 20 years ago, people danced atop the wall, arms raised in victory.
Yeah, back when I actually believed in the American newspapers.
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Update:
"Merkel also recalled the tragic side of Nov. 9 for Germans - the Nazis’ Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass - an anti-Semitic pogrom 71 years ago. At least 91 German Jews were killed, hundreds of synagogues destroyed and thousands of Jewish businesses vandalized and looted in the state-sanctioned riots that night.
Pffft!
It always has to be about the ***, doesn't it?
Related: The First Palestinian Kristallnacht: Kafr Qassem
“Both show that freedom is not self evident,’’ Merkel said. “Freedom must be fought for. Freedom must be defended time and again.’’
She sounds just as bad as Ms. Hitlery!
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"Mexicans dubbed it the “new Iron Curtain.’’
And they are not referring to Israel!
