Modern-day American border guard Shawn Carter works for the Chicago Transit Authority. His first morning of work at the Western Brown Line El station, a few days before the November 9 anniversary of the so-called Western defeat of Communism, he was shocked to find a massive [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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There is much to be disappointed about in the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but we need not be overly cynical. This marked the end of a brutally harsh dictatorship and the downfall of the Soviet-Stalinist empire.
It is up to progressive (small d) democrats to remind everyone that this was a victory over tyranny and not for world conquest by multi-national corporations.
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