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Fall of the Wall: Not a Happy Anniversary for All

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. While this is undoubtedly a day of celebration for many Americans, Germans, and other Westerners, not everyone benefited. Thousands of migrant workers from Mozambique and Vietnam, for example, were displaced, as this article reports. Of course, it does not seem to have crossed the mind of this reporter that the labor shortage in East Germany might—just might—be related in some way to the communist policies of the government.