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One point about the fall of the Berlin Wall is not made often enough. It used to be a historiographical commonplace that Germany was the European country where liberal revolutions had always failed. That is no longer the case. There has been a successful democratic revolution at the very core of the old Prussian authoritarian state, in a part of Germany most of which had practically never enjoyed democratic government.

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[elise-the-great.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought about it in this context-- incredibly encouraging. If there was hope for this, how many other lost-cause countries might have a chance?