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Nov 11, 2019 Letters
Dear Editor,
It is now 30 years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall which once separated East and West Germany.
I have some vivid recollections of the wall as a former student in East Germany. The wall was symbolic of the East-West divide and was in fact a physical barrier between two opposing ideological systems, the capitalistic West Berlin and the Communist East Berlin.
Those were the days when the Cold War was at its zenith and both the USSR and the USA were seeking to expand their spheres of influence in several parts of the world including Guyana.
It is no secret that the PPP became one of the earliest victims of the Cold War which found expression in the suspension of the Constitution in 1953 after the PPP won a landslide victory in 1953, the first under universal adult suffrage.
History repeated itself in 1964 when the PPP was again engineered out of power through what former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson described as a ‘fiddled constitutional arrangement.’
Much has changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, most notably the disintegration of the once powerful Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the re-reunification of Germany and Vietnam.
The Cold War may have ended some 30 years ago with the fall of the Berlin War but the battle to win ‘hearts and minds’ and for a better and more humane world remains relevant.
Hydar Ally
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