I was on the other side, in the army before the wall fell, watched that event from afar but also with some glimpses into it from people who were there before it happened and so on...

There is so much to say about these things, especially how communism and its gateway drug socialism, I have seen quite a bit of the "internals" of this, its complicated as hell to even start explaining, but here on Stacker News it seems there is an audience that is up to it!