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Fred Smith |
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Fred Smith is the President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in Washington DC. |
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List of Articles by Fred Smith |
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Twenty Years have Passed: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Published on :
Monday, November 09, 2009 |
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Many historians cite World War I as the twentieth century’s opening act. Sixteen million souls died in that war over nothing. Two of the nations it toppled became the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Communist and fascist governments would combine to kill more than one hundred million people over the next seven decades. Those needless deaths are the twentieth century’s legacy, every bit as much as the transistor or rock ‘n roll. The fall of the Berlin Wall was that short, bloody century’s coda, writes Fred Smith for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. |
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