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  • Brutal Dictator Kitsch (Prince Harry should have worn a Stalin shirt.)

    01/14/2005 1:15:41 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 583+ views
    The American Prowler ^ | 1/14/2005 | Timothy P. Carney
    BERLIN -- A line of cobblestones in the street marks where the Wall once ran through the middle of town. Just on the East German side of Friedrichstrasse, in an empty lot, is a field of crosses honoring those who died trying to escape the totalitarian rule of East Germany. A few yards from this memorial was Checkpoint Charlie, the entry point from the Soviet sector of East Berlin to the American sector. A museum there remembers 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who on August 17, 1962, was shot scaling the Berlin Wall in a bid for freedom. The guards let him...