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On Anniversary of Berlin Wall's Fall, Expat Pub Ignores Causes, and What Led to Its Original Construction

By Tom Blumer | November 10, 2008 - 14:56

Expatica is an overseas publication for US expatriates in Europe with six country-customized editions. It betrays many of the biases that permeate mainstream US journalism. What follows is a prime example of that.

The publication's Germany version today has an article celebrating the 19th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that makes it appear as if it, well, y'know, sorta just serendipitously happened because a bunch of people protested for a while.

Here are the key paragraphs (bolds are mine):