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After the Berlin wall: Europe 20 years on

Muddling through with money and morals

By Michael Skapinker

Published: November 16 2009 20:04 | Last updated: November 16 2009 20:04

Mondli Makhanya, editor of South Africa’s Sunday Times, recently recalled his horror 20 years ago as he and his friends watched television pictures of Germans chipping away at the Berlin Wall.

“We found it inconceivable that people would be celebrating the end of their socialist utopia and that they were handing themselves over to the evil ways of the capitalist west,” he wrote.

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