“Outsiders seem to think that it was the opening of the Wall that brought us our freedom. It was the other way around. First we fought for our freedom; and then, because of that, the Wall fell.”— Marianne Birthler, amazon.comTagged: Nature of Revolutions, Berlin Wall, Against, The Limits of Intervention, Fighting for Freedom
“The Wall’s opening was not a gift from political elites and was in no way predetermined. It resulted from a remarkable constellation of actors and contingent events that came together in a precise but entirely unplanned sequence. Rather than rely on false assumptions that matters were inevitable and…”— Mary Elise Sarotte, amazon.comTagged: The Butterfly Effect of History, How Things Could Have Been Different, Berlin Wall