The system that builds a wall is on the decline: it has to take desperate measures in order to avoid collapse. That is the message of the Berlin wall on its first anniversary. I can well understand the Communist regimes concern over the flight of a steady stream of refugees who were willing to give up their homes. their possessions. and their family and childhood ties in order to live in a free society. To rebuild part of a devastated country whose dissatisfied population was diminishing at the rate of 2 V million people in 15 years was no easy task. But to fence in human beings as if they were cattle can hardly be considered an acceptable solution to the problems of East Germanys socalled German Democratic Republica regime which rules by force and terror and which. in reality. is not supported by Germans and is far from being either a democracy or a republic. or even German.
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