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what is the communist response to Kennedy's famous Berlin Wall quote: "...democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in..." (www.jfklibrary.org)

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It's really hard to find non Western sources about the Berlin Wall

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just point at the global border regime which exists purely to keep poor people in the exploited global south and unable to enjoy the wealth plundered from them, which is hoarded in the global north. It's far larger and more violent than the Berlin wall ever was; it spans the entire planet.