THE LONG SHADOW OF 1989
‘Merkel, Putin, Orbán and Kaczynski were all shaped by the 1989 revolutions’ november 3, 2016 by: Simon Kuper, FT Magazine On November 9 1989, a 35-year-old physicist in East Berlin saw the startling news on TV that the border with West Germany was opening. But she didn’t rush to the Berlin Wall. Instead — in the…