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The Berlin Wall: 20 years later
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People take pictures of individually painted dominos set up along the former route of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, as part of the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of its historical fall. Some 1,000 giant dominos, many of them decorated by schoolchildren, were be toppled during the official ceremony in Berlin.
Many eastern Germans not missing communism one bit
Editor, The Times:
The headline “In eastern Germany, nostalgia for communism” [News, Nov. 6], took me by surprise because I think it was very misleading.
My East German cousins, who spent their entire childhood and young adulthood living under that wretched German Democratic Republic (GDR), would be the first in line to object to The Times’ apparent intimation that so-called nostalgia for communism is alive and well in that part of the world today.
Had the headline composer read to the end of the article, he or she would have discovered that a recent Pew Research Center poll shows an overwhelming 85 percent of eastern Germans approve of the change in regime to market capitalism, and nearly as many in favor of multiparty democracy.
In any society you will find the grouch factor, and it is misleading to make generalizations from the words of a few.
It might be interesting to explore the trend among some of the younger set, who claim they want the GDR back, without realizing what a powerfully negative force the GDR actually was.
— Marie Ross, Federal Way
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