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   Tuckers Nuts Resist (jstatepost@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 14:23:40 JST Tuckers Nuts Resist

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   • Wolfgang Lucht

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   🥥 Eye wonder how many people 35 years ago thought that the fall of the Berlin Wall would signal the start of the collapse of the Sovuet Union.
   Eye wonder today how many people realize that the election of Donald Trump signals the start of the collapse of the United States. 🥥
   #BerlinWall #USPolitics #TuckersBalls

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     Wolfgang Lucht (w_lucht@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 14:23:41 JST Wolfgang Lucht

     35 years ago today I was awake past midnight in my little student accommodation listening to the radio. What I heard was unbelievable: the Berlin wall had fallen.

     That had been inconceivable just shortly before. My grandparents had often taken me to see the heavily fortified border, western side. The guards, fellow Germans, never waved back. My grandmother's home village was just out of sight beyond.

     Things can change.

     Today I am myself a citizen of the east. And very much at home.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.