{"id":952,"date":"2009-11-09T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2009-11-12T02:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T08:01:15","slug":"the-day-stalinism-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/the-day-stalinism-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day Stalinism Died&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-953\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-953\" title=\"247392_3_mauer_dpa\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/247392_3_mauer_dpa-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Mauerfall\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/247392_3_mauer_dpa-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/247392_3_mauer_dpa.jpeg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauerfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t get any better than this. What a day of unmitigated good. And brought to you by&#8230;the people. 20 years ago today, they walked west, across the wall, to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we can&#8217;t forget that this date is also the anniversary of the unleashing of unmitigated evil, November 9 also being the date of Kristallnacht (1938), the night when racist rhetoric turned into full-throttle, people-powered genocidal action.<\/p>\n<p>People power. Hmmm. Kind of like fire. \u00a0It must be handled carefully&#8230;as <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT Op-Ed: &quot;Paranoia Strikes Deep&quot; by Paul Krugman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/09\/opinion\/09krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Krugman warns toda<\/a>y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 9: 20 year Jubilee for the fall of the wall, the death of Stalinism, and the unleashing of hope for civilization. But never forget, it is also one of the darkest dates of humanity, as it is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, 1938. More to come?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,4],"tags":[566,565,564,567,563,165,550,568,569],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-insecurity-heimatssicherheitsdienst-staatssicherheit","category-society","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-wall","tag-fall-of-the-berlin-wall","tag-kristallnacht","tag-mauerfall","tag-new-york-times","tag-paul-krugman","tag-people-power","tag-stalinism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}