My daughter come home after school and got started on an assignment. She had just watched a video on the Berlin Wall. She then asks me something that I must have had that "look" on because she said she finally stumped me. Her question got me thinking and I'm not sure how to answer:
She said that the East Berliners had found routes out through other nations, like Czechoslovakia and Hungary once they had toppled their communist regimes (towards the end of the Cold War). So, she wanted to know why the United States and the other western European nations supported these refugees when we hated communism so much, and was still wary of spies, and why we don't trust the Syrian refugees today?
She's seeing a mirror image of today's refugees and those trying to escape the Iron Curtain. Now, I don't know if there is or not. What do you all think?
She said that the East Berliners had found routes out through other nations, like Czechoslovakia and Hungary once they had toppled their communist regimes (towards the end of the Cold War). So, she wanted to know why the United States and the other western European nations supported these refugees when we hated communism so much, and was still wary of spies, and why we don't trust the Syrian refugees today?
She's seeing a mirror image of today's refugees and those trying to escape the Iron Curtain. Now, I don't know if there is or not. What do you all think?
