Nov 9, 2009

The Gates Test

A 20 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín:

For some years, I have described something I call “the gates test.” Someone can judge a country by which direction people run when the country erects gates: Do they flee in, or do they risk life and limb to get out? (Over the course of some four decades until 1989, some 2.5 million people had fled East Germany and many were shot trying to flee.) There was no better symbol of the gates test than the Berlin Wall.

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