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Memory, real estate, and the fleeting borders of happiness: the fall of the Berlin Wall in its twenty-fifth year

Memory, real estate, and the fleeting borders of happiness: the fall of the Berlin Wall in its twenty-fifth year

by aseifert | Nov 7, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics

By Dina Gusejnova Familiar images from 1989 show people on the Berlin Wall, dancing, holding hands, feet dangling east and west, and laughing. Twenty-five years on, these images remain icons of a fleeting phenomenon: political happiness. It is all too easy to confuse...

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