Father Marcel Guarnizo on the Consequences of Bad Ideas

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The fall of the Berlin Wall is arguably the most significant event of the 20th century, says the director of an educational foundation that seeks to create a new intellectual culture in post-communist countries.

Father Marcel Guarnizo is founder and chairman of the Vienna-based organization Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe (EICEE), which hosted a conference earlier this month to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to reflect on lessons learned from the rise and fall of communism.

Part one is here and part two is there.



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Posted December 30, 2009 at 7:11 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. CanaAnglican wrote:

The fall of the Berlin Wall is arguably the most significant event of the 20th century?
How about victory in WW II?  How soon we forget.

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