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June 28, 2005
Communists Still Run Berlin
I went to Check Point Charlie about 11 years ago. It honors those slain while trying to flee from communism in Germany. Now a group led by former East German politicians is going to tear down the memorial to the slain this 4th of July.
We didn't think it could get much worse in Germany...well, it just did. Davids Medienkritik recently learned that the Berlin city government, made up of a coalition between the SPD (Gerhard Schroeder's Social-Democrats) and the PDS (former SED party that ran Communist East Germany), has decided to allow the razing of the Checkpoint Charlie monument by court order.And get this: The monument, which consists of over 1,000 crosses adorned with the names of those murdered attempting to escape Communist East Germany for freedom, will be bulldozed on the 4th of July! (See update above, now rescheduled for July 5th because of the pressure we put on!)
Posted by Pete at June 28, 2005 06:00 PM
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