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The legacy of 1989 was western complacency

6 mins | Oct 7, 2019
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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, are East block countries enjoying the freedoms they fought for? Tony Barber writing in the Financial Times reflects on the east's transition from communism - but under the supervision of western democracies were they sold a flawed model?

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