Cathy Young on the Berlin Wall’s Fall

The
festivities for the 25^th anniversary of the fall of the
Berlin Wall, a turning point in the collapse of Soviet communism,
have passed in the shadow of troubling events around the world. In
Moscow, a KGB-bred strongman plots to build a new Kremlin-ruled
empire as a nervous Europe looks on. Meanwhile, the specter of
radical Islamic fundamentalism is haunting the Middle East.

Cathy Young asks, has the promise of freedom that looked so
bright in 1989 faded? Or are there grounds for cautious hope, in
place of the wild-eyed optimism of a quarter century ago?

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