We've seen this movie before: Socialism in history

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed. On a very ordinary night thousands of East Germans started crossing the dividing barrier between the communist East and capitalist West Berlin after the East German regime had suddenly opened tightly controlled border crossings. In a matter of hours history was made. Throngs of people soon swamped the Wall and then started smashing the hated communist barrier into concrete rubble.
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