When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, commentators were quick to unearth the phrase attributed to François Mauriac in the early 1950s,
"I love Germany so much that I prefer there to be." two ”
.
And then we had to swallow his astonishment, because History was advancing with a beating pace: on October 3, 1990 there was only one, and Germany chose this happy date ("
who look alike assemble" )
to make it its annual national holiday.
Two years later, the USSR broke up, putting an end to the Cold War regime which had been established in 1947, the year of the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe and of the "American doctrine of containment" (
containment)
aimed at containing Soviet expansion.
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Thirty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall
In the light of the thirty years that we have just lived, of our rather pitiful economic and social performances, of communalist fractures, of the climate full of resentment and violence, the French of 2020 are entitled to remember the
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