It’s not a civilisational sickness? Guardian opens Berlin Wall celebrations with eulogy to communist East Germany
Monday, November 9th, 2009If you thought there were some standards too low even for the Guardian newspaper group you might well have missed the latest eulogy to one of post-war Europe’s most cruel and repressive dictatorships. That’s right, as the civilised among us this week celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — one of modern history’s most momentous and uplifting expressions of the human spirit’s yearning for freedom and dignity — the Guardian has pulled from its voluminous list of apologists for totalitarianism to grace us with a piece of fulsome praise for the workers paradise that was communist East Germany.
One would have thought that fresh from its attempted whitewash of the massacre at Fort Hood last week (see previous entry) and after the post-Gaza hate campaign against a state which (by complete coincidence we are asked to believe) happens to be populated by Jews, the moral and civilisation cess pit that is the Guardian no longer has the power to surprise us.