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Post-1989 Germany an Unexpected Success

Successes in Europe would boggle a 1989 mind: Applebaum

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 9, 2009 12:42 PM CST

(Newser) – As “the exhaustive and perfectly blameless celebrations” of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall unfold, Anne Applebaum has a bone to pick. The festivities are “focusing on what didn’t happen rather than what did,” she writes, treating... Read full story »

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