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The Fall Of The Berlin Wall – COVID-19 Reflections
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It’s so easy to take the freedoms we have for granted, or it was, wasn’t it, until the Covid-19 pandemic came along? We are cut off from our family, our friends, our lovers, and urged to even keep going out for groceries to a once a week affair. Something Germans knew the feeling of, for four decades, when a wall divided East and West until finally coming down three decades ago last fall.
I had the opportunity to visit Germany on the eve of this remarkable world-changing event’s 30th Anniversary celebration, and in this classic episode of the Shaun Proulx Show we’ll hear from a former spy, an escapee, Germans who were but young kids at the time, and the Canadian grad student who accidentally stumbled upon the celebrations 30 years ago, long before something called a Coronavirus created invisible walls globally for us all to cope with, cut off now as we are.
As Covid-19 builds walls that cuts societies around the globe off from family and loved ones and simple things like running errands, we re-share this classic episode of the SPS about a country that 30 years ago was divided in half, its citizens separated from their loved ones as we are today.
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