The Ironic Curtain
The Berlin Wall fell on this day in 1989, and the Germans have been behaving for the last twenty years. Don’t get too confident. We could have made the same optimistic assessment in 1890, 1783, 1668…all the way back to A.D. 9. But so far….
Here is the history of the Berlin Wall, written on the anniversary of its construction:
https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/13/on-this-day-in-1961-the-berlin-wall/
As Winston Churchill once put it: “The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.”