This past Sunday was the 34th anniversary of one of the highpoints of the entire history of Western Civilization.

Along with the signings of the Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence, VE Day, and a short list of other highlights, the literal and figurative collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the fall of the Soviet Union, was a high point in history – a time I felt divinely privileged to have witnessed and, in my tiny way, participated in.

But when Francis Fukuyama extrapolated from the fall of the Wall that “history had ended”, I figured that one would have to have an incredibly expensive education to believe something so stupid.

I was right. Go figure. .

This photo of Germans joyously celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz was taken on Nov 12, 1989.

The photo was taken just 34 years ago, but its lesson is already all but forgotten in the US—buried beneath the zeitgeist of social justice. pic.twitter.com/kMdi0W5ujo

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) November 12, 2023

Jon is one of the reasons to stay on Twitter – a brilliant commentator.

But he’s got one part wrong.

The lessons weren’t forgotten. They were buried by a class in our society that rooted for the rulers on the east side of the old wall – and likely believe in their heart of hearts either that they just hadn’t tried real Marxism, or that they’d be the ones in the dachas rather than the gulags.

It was a controlled intellectual demotion.