Read more Communism stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11206/communism.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:33:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73679/east-germanys-first-lady-unrepentant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe wife of former East German dictator Erich Honecker loses no sleep over the policies she and her husband championed, including one that forcibly placed children of dissidents into other families or foster homes. “We lived good lives in our GDR,” Margot Honecker tells the Independent . More than 2,000...http://www.newser.com/story/73679/east-germanys-first-lady-unrepentant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 20:43:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73652/germany-celebrates-fall-of-the-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFireworks illuminated the rainy skies above Berlin as Germans and high-profile visitors came together today to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall exactly 20 years ago. President Obama unexpectedly joined the festivities—in a video greeting introduced by Hillary Clinton. "There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny," he...http://www.newser.com/story/73652/germany-celebrates-fall-of-the-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 17:51:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73634/post-1989-germany-an-unexpected-success.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs “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 “the past two decades as a foregone conclusion.” But...http://www.newser.com/story/73634/post-1989-germany-an-unexpected-success.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 12:42:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73585/germany-hails-anniversary-of-berlin-walls-fall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHundreds of foam dominoes will fall today in Berlin, symbolizing the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has called Nov. 9, 1989, "the happiest day in recent German history," will lead the festivities. The guest...http://www.newser.com/story/73585/germany-hails-anniversary-of-berlin-walls-fall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 8:54:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71736/domino-wall-to-fall-on-berlin-anniversary.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwenty years after a domino effect of resistance toppled Communist regimes across Europe and brought down the Berlin Wall, the Germans are trying it again with actual dominoes. Volunteers have crafted almost 1,000 8-foot-tall Styrofoam dominoes and plan to assemble them along the path of the old Wall through...http://www.newser.com/story/71736/domino-wall-to-fall-on-berlin-anniversary.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 3:31:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71255/glenn-becks-mormonism-is-the-apocalyptic-kind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMost of the media has been understandably wary of tying Glenn Beck’s Mormonism to his jeremiad against President Obama and the enemies of freedom, Adam Reilly writes. And yet, Beck is a clear inheritor of a particular strain of mid-century Mormon political ideology that espoused virulent anti-communism and the divine...http://www.newser.com/story/71255/glenn-becks-mormonism-is-the-apocalyptic-kind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69247/early-castro-compatriot-almeida-dead-at-82.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne of the original leaders of the Cuban Revolution and a general in Fidel Castro’s military has died, the BBC reports. Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, was the third most senior member in Raul Castro’s Council of State and the only black member of the Cuban leadership. Almeida met Fidel at...http://www.newser.com/story/69247/early-castro-compatriot-almeida-dead-at-82.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 12:32:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69104/thatcher-urged-gorbachev-to-block-german-reunification.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMargaret Thatcher called on Mikhail Gorbachev to halt German reunification months before the Berlin Wall came down, newly unearthed Kremlin documents reveal. Thatcher—telling the Soviet leader he should disregard NATO pronouncements on the issue—said the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact wasn't in the interests of the West, the...http://www.newser.com/story/69104/thatcher-urged-gorbachev-to-block-german-reunification.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 2:06:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68911/right-revives-red-scare-despite-lack-of-reds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe right has been energized by a good old-fashioned Red hunt—never mind the fact that there are precious few old-style leftists around in America today, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal . The centrist Democratic administration has been in power for well under a year, Frank writes, but...http://www.newser.com/story/68911/right-revives-red-scare-despite-lack-of-reds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Sep 2009 6:30:11 CDT