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author is optimistic that the reunifying the peninsula would be beneficial to all Koreans.
The South pulled itself up from poverty to prosperity; it could also withstand the economic burden of absorbing the north.author is optimistic that the reunifying the peninsula would be beneficial to all... more
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Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) have constantly been the subject of colonial wars and aggression. Korea fought a stubborn anti-colonial struggle against the Japanese since the latter occupied their country brutally from 1910 until 1945. The Koreans in fact emerged from the Second World War as a victorious member of the allied forces. But US imperialism, hungry to expand its colonial domination, took up seamlessly from the Japanese in occupying the south of the Korean peninsula, setting up its puppet Syngman Rhee as the head of a fascistic comprador capitalist clique, rather than allowing nation-wide elections as was its obligation; realising that the victorious national liberation forces led by Marxist revolutionaries (Kim Il Sung, et al) would sweep to power. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43043-north-korea-reality-checkDemocratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) have constantly been the subject of... more
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I actually don't remember where I was when I found out that the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago. Strange because I have such clear memories of other 1980s landmarks like the Challenger explosion. What I do remember most clearly about the reunification of East and West Germany was from German class a few years later. Our textbooks were a few years old, still in good condition, but completely outpaced by the movement of history. Everyday there would be a new page we would read with an outdated cultural reference to a divided Germany. It was the first I'd ever really learned about East Germany - and it sounded terrible.
Share your memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall with us.
A few sites with some great anniversary coverage:
German magazine Der Spiegel has a collection of articles worth reading.
On Tumblr, Best of Life is posting some gripping images out of the Life magazine archives of the Wall throughout its infamous life.
And Magnum has a picture essay of years in East Germany.
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I actually don't remember where I was when I found out that the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago. Strange because I have such clear memories of other 1980s landmarks like the Challenger explosion. What I do remember most clearly about the reunification of East and West Germany was from German class a few years later. Our textbooks were a few years old, still in good condition, but completely outpaced by the movement of history. Everyday there would be a new page we would read with an outdated cultural reference to a divided Germany. It was the first I'd ever really learned about East Germany - and it sounded terrible.
Share your memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall with us.
From the News Blog:
http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/09/fall-of-the-berlin-wall-20-years-later/
A few sites with some great anniversary coverage:
German magazine Der Spiegel has a collection of articles worth reading.
Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,k-7540,00.html
On Tumblr, Best of Life is posting some gripping images out of the Life magazine archives of the Wall throughout its infamous life.
Best of Life: http://bestoflife.tumblr.com/
And Magnum has a picture essay of years in East Germany.
Magnum: http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/pictures-vanished-countryI actually don't remember where I was when I found out that the Berlin Wall fell... more
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The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island.The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept.... more
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