RaleighDevil
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This structure was, in reality, one of the lesser crimes when compared to the gulag, the purges, the Great Leap Forward and other atrocities committed in the name of "socialism."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/14/german-left-berlin-wall-anniversary
A group of leftwing politicians in Germany have been criticised for refusing to observe a minute's silence on Saturday to commemorate the 136-plus people who died trying to breach the Berlin Wall.
A far-left newspaper added to the controversy by printing a front page saying "thank you" to the wall for "28 years of keeping the peace in Europe" and "28 years of plentiful crèche and kindergarten places".
The timing of both stunts was provocative: Saturday marked 50 years since the East German government built what it euphemistically described as "an anti-fascist protection measure". To mark the date, a minute's silence was held across Germany at noon, with Angela Merkel attending an event on the former death strip in east Berlin.
But at a political conference in Rostock, in the former East Germany, three delegates from Die Linke party refused to join in when 100 colleagues stood up to observe the silence.
One was Marianne Linke, a regional politician from Die Linke, which has links to the old East German ruling socialist party. According to the tabloid Bild am Sonntag she tried to justify her actions by saying: "The border closure in 1961 would not have happened without fascist Germany." The implication being that the wall was either a rational reaction against a West that had not dealt with its Nazi past, or a result of the way the allies divided up Germany after the second world war.
Even the then US president, John F Kennedy, believed a wall was better than another war, she is alleged to have added.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/14/german-left-berlin-wall-anniversary
A group of leftwing politicians in Germany have been criticised for refusing to observe a minute's silence on Saturday to commemorate the 136-plus people who died trying to breach the Berlin Wall.
A far-left newspaper added to the controversy by printing a front page saying "thank you" to the wall for "28 years of keeping the peace in Europe" and "28 years of plentiful crèche and kindergarten places".
The timing of both stunts was provocative: Saturday marked 50 years since the East German government built what it euphemistically described as "an anti-fascist protection measure". To mark the date, a minute's silence was held across Germany at noon, with Angela Merkel attending an event on the former death strip in east Berlin.
But at a political conference in Rostock, in the former East Germany, three delegates from Die Linke party refused to join in when 100 colleagues stood up to observe the silence.
One was Marianne Linke, a regional politician from Die Linke, which has links to the old East German ruling socialist party. According to the tabloid Bild am Sonntag she tried to justify her actions by saying: "The border closure in 1961 would not have happened without fascist Germany." The implication being that the wall was either a rational reaction against a West that had not dealt with its Nazi past, or a result of the way the allies divided up Germany after the second world war.
Even the then US president, John F Kennedy, believed a wall was better than another war, she is alleged to have added.