All In All

Fifty years since the construction of the Berlin Wall. (Which, by the way, was not the Iron Curtain, Churchill's borrowed phrase from Goebbels to mean exactly what Goebbels had meant by it.)

Construction by a state in which several parties that retained names and trappings from diverse pre-existing political traditions pretended to be different from, and in competition with, each other.

And construction by a state distinguished from its Western neighbour by its far lower level of church membership, by its banishment of the churches from the delivery of public services, by its abortion on demand up to birth, and by its farming out of tiny children to state-run baby farms so as to conscript their mothers into the workforce, rather than paying their fathers enough to support the entire family.

Imagine...