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Nov. 9 2009 - 4:21 pm | 12 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments

The Berlin Wall, as it looked to pundits in 1989

By JOSHUA KUCERA

World Politics Review has a good find today: a NewsHour segment from the day the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago, with a bunch of foreign policy panjandrums (including Sam Nunn, Richard Lugar, John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul Nitze) giving their instant takes. I can’t embed it here, so you’ll have to go check it out for yourself. The most striking thing to me was how, while the participants said that the events were monumental and extraordinary, they didn’t even realize how monumental: the ideas that the Soviet Union would collapse or that the Warsaw Pact would disband were barely even considered.

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An interesting piece of primary source history. Check it out: Video | 1989: Panelists Discuss the Impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

 
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