Cathy Young, RealClearWorldThe fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago was one of the most exhilarating events of the 20th Century. No one could fail to be moved by the joy of people who tore down a loathed monument to tyranny. Today, when all that remains of the Wall is a few sections preserved as historical artifacts and graffiti-stained chunks sold in souvenir shops, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe remains a glorious moment but also, in some ways, a bittersweet one.There are widespread reports that for many eastern Germans, liberation has turned to disillusionment. The British daily, The Guardian,...
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The Curious Case of Communist Nostalgia
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