Thread by @Lexialex, I hate this podcast. There is no way the CIA wrote Wind [...]

I hate this podcast. There is no way the CIA wrote Wind of Change, plus this podcast is a perfect example of American exceptionalism. Stop giving white men who have nothing to say podcasts https://twitter.com/praddenkeefe/status/1259825471350595584

https://twitter.com/praddenkeefe/status/1259825471350595584

Americans love taking credit for the fall of the wall and the fall of the iron curtain...when in reality it was achieved in spite of them not because of them

The East German people started demonstrating not knowing if they would get arrested or shot. Here at the front of the Monday demonstration, two WOMEN hold up a sign that reads “For an open country with free people” all done without the help of the CIA...

...plus, for once this an opportunity to tell a positive story about the church https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europes-revolution-the-pastor-who-brought-down-the-berlin-wall-1799976.html

Europe's Revolution: The pastor who brought down the Berlin Wall

It is said that the key to the door in the Iron Curtain was cut in Leipzig. It was to become the key that opened Berlin's infamous Wall and ultimately brought about its collapse, not to mention that

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europes-revolution-the-pastor-who-brought-down-the-berlin-wall-1799976.html

This is still true and it’s also my favorite tweet https://twitter.com/nicolacoughlan/status/1239597160313901058?s=21 https://twitter.com/nicolacoughlan/status/1239597160313901058