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柏林—柏林牆

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2022/11/30

The secret history of the Berlin Wall | HistoryExtra

這次在柏林,不能好好地看看殘存的柏林牆,一路上讀讀隨處可見的在柏林發生的事件描述,挺可惜的;如果是我一個人在柏林,那會除了睡覺,其它時間都在大街小巷晃著。

在殘存的柏林牆那兒,看著兩邊的隔牆,以及中間的崗哨和鐵絲網,以及跳樓逃跑的人的錄像,總覺得心頭發酸:人們竟然能想到在同一個城市用一堵牆來隔離同類,並且隔離時間長達28年之久;而這牆不光隔離了人,也隔離了心。牆兩邊的人在不同的體製下生活,其結果是連思維都變了。

其實,柏林是民主與專製體質的一個活生生的試驗場,其結果是什麽,誰贏了,大家也都看到了。

這就是我去柏林想看到的!O非常熱心地帶我去DRR博物館,看看以前東德的生活方式,我卻沒多少熱情,因為以前就生活在那樣的國度。

美國總統說得好:民主製度並不完美,但它至少不要用牆來把人給圈起來。

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

John F. Kennedy, 1963

"Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.  

I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together."

“自由有很多困難,民主也不完美,但我們從來不需要築起一堵牆來把我們的人民關在裏麵,防止他們離開我們。

我想代表我的同胞說,他們生活在大西洋彼岸的許多英裏之外,離你們很遠,他們為能夠與你們分享而感到最大的自豪,即使來自距離,過去18年的故事。我知道沒有哪個城鎮、城市在被圍困 18 年之後仍然充滿活力和力量,以及西柏林這座城市的希望和決心。雖然這堵牆是共產主義製度失敗的最明顯和生動的展示,但全世界都可以看到,我們對此並不滿意,因為正如你們的市長所說,它不僅是對曆史的冒犯,而且是對對人類的冒犯,分離家庭,分裂丈夫和妻子,分裂兄弟姐妹,分裂希望團結在一起的民族。”

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