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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gives a speech on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin on November 9, 2025.

Even Non-AfD Officials Agree Steinmeier’s Allusion to a Ban Is Ridiculous

Michael Curzon November 11, 2025

The federal president was trying to damage the AfD, but is likely to have bolstered the party’s support instead.

What Was and Is: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Bence Bauer | Péter Dobrowiecki November 9, 2025

In many ways, Germany is still a country divided. West Germans do not fully comprehend how their Eastern compatriots feel, think, and argue.

Nationalism and Freedom: Thirty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Shea Bradley-Farrell May 3, 2023

“Who are we, what holds us together, and how do we stay together so as to bear our burdens as a community? For conservatism is about national identity.”
— Sir Roger Scruton

In Defence of the Nation State

Dieter Stein October 8, 2022

Germans have become incapable or unwilling to defend our national interests. We no longer secure our own borders—we are too refined for that. We leave it to others, such as Poland and Hungary, and then lecture them when they do it.

Ex-USSR Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dies

Tristan Vanheuckelom August 31, 2022

Gorbachev distinguished himself from former USSR leaders by his handling of pro-democracy protests in Eastern Europe. Instead of crushing these like previous Kremlin leaders had done—recall the tanks sent into Hungary in 1956 and then into Czechoslovakia in 1968—Gorbachev went a diplomatic route.

Tag: Berlin Wall

Even Non-AfD Officials Agree Steinmeier’s Allusion to a Ban Is Ridiculous

What Was and Is: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nationalism and Freedom: Thirty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

In Defence of the Nation State

Ex-USSR Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dies

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