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Fall of the Berlin Wall reminds us why markets matter
The Financial Review’s take on the principles at stake in major domestic and global stories.
The fall of the Berlin Wall remains the single most significant political and economic event in living memory.
The tectonic events of November 1989 that liberated the people of Russia and Eastern Europe from Soviet totalitarianism confirmed the catastrophic failure of the communist ideology that Karl Marx formulated and Lenin and Stalin practised.
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