THE GATES TEST -- BY BILL BENNETT, National Review

marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But even that phrase doesn’t do the story justice: The wall did not fall — it was pushed. I’m currently writing a history of the past 20 years, and have a good deal about the Berlin Wall in that book — here is some of what will be published:

In 1961, the East German government erected a physical Iron Curtain, an ugly combination of cement and electrified fencing with armed guards, an internal barricade that separated the

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