Nearly 40 years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a Cold War, and eastern Europe sat under communist oppression behind walls and barbed wire.
But on November 9, 1989, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings delivered a special report with astonishing news: East Germans would be free to travel. The Berlin Wall was coming down.
You can watch that special report here.
Today a panel of the Berlin Wall is actually on display at a park in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
In March, pollsters at Rasmussen reported that support for capitalism has declined since 2023, and a growing share of likely voters now say socialism is better. On the whole, most Americans still favor free markets — but that support has dwindled.
The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is a reminder that socialism is tyranny — and that it always fails.
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