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President Ronald Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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<blockquote data-quote="mindlight" data-source="post: 74489625" data-attributes="member: 21246"><p>I was in Poland as a missionary when communism collapsed there. People were prisoners in a corrupt , oppressive and run down system. Reagan, Thatcher and the pope were 3 primary actors in bringing that wall down but it was the people of Eastern Europe who suffered communism all those years and prayed for freedom through them.</p><p></p><p>People in this thread seem to be trying to draw parallels with the Trump wall with Mexico and Merkels openness to refugees from the failed Muslim states of North Africa and the Middle East but really these are entirely different cases with different kinds of motivation. </p><p></p><p>The thing I learn from the Berlin wall is that the system that built it could only keep control by making its people prisoners.</p><p></p><p>The Trump wall is about depriving people who want the opportunity of living in America from getting in. </p><p></p><p>Merkel let the walls down as an act of compassion to some very desperate and needy people and maybe also because Germany has a major demographic problem with it lack of babies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindlight, post: 74489625, member: 21246"] I was in Poland as a missionary when communism collapsed there. People were prisoners in a corrupt , oppressive and run down system. Reagan, Thatcher and the pope were 3 primary actors in bringing that wall down but it was the people of Eastern Europe who suffered communism all those years and prayed for freedom through them. People in this thread seem to be trying to draw parallels with the Trump wall with Mexico and Merkels openness to refugees from the failed Muslim states of North Africa and the Middle East but really these are entirely different cases with different kinds of motivation. The thing I learn from the Berlin wall is that the system that built it could only keep control by making its people prisoners. The Trump wall is about depriving people who want the opportunity of living in America from getting in. Merkel let the walls down as an act of compassion to some very desperate and needy people and maybe also because Germany has a major demographic problem with it lack of babies. [/QUOTE]
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