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World leaders mark Berlin Wall Anniversary with call to defend liberal values: ‘we must not succumb to the populists’ Checkpoint

World leaders mark Berlin Wall Anniversary with call to defend liberal values: ‘we must not succumb to the populists’

Mass protests had been erupting throughout eastern Europe for months. In Czechoslovakia, a poet named Vaclav Havel was leading the velvet revolution. Poland had already ripped off the yoke of single-party Communist rule. And protesters were out in the streets…
bubmag
November 9, 2019