{"id":27308,"date":"2019-11-20T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=27308"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:48:17","slug":"a-reminder-mr-gorbachev-tear-down-that-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/world\/2019\/11\/20\/a-reminder-mr-gorbachev-tear-down-that-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reminder: Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down That Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cAs far as I know, effective immediately. Without delay,\u201d came the translation that early November night, in 1989, at the end of a long press conference, a mistake one might say, but according to the wife of former Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands or SED in German) official G\u00fcnter Schabowski, the utterance<\/a> was no accident, it was intentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen he read the note, he wanted the wall to be opened immediately,\u201d said Schabowski\u2019s wife, Irina, this according to Frankfurter Allgemeine, a newspaper out of Frankfurt, Germany. \u201cOne can not say that the border will be opened in a few hours. The border had to be opened immediately.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was thirty years ago last week, but the Berlin Wall and everything surrounding it ceases to be some long-forgotten relic of the past. In fact, the splitting of Germany, the reasons why and the half a century afterward have continuing effects on our modern world, of our current global politics and of the splitting of continents nearly a century after the end of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though most readers here won\u2019t remember it, as most weren\u2019t even alive at the same time as the wall\u2019s existence (I myself was three when the wall ultimately fell) the Berlin Wall meant more than the splitting of a city or even a country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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