Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 On the contrary, @danelawdave, the Soviet Politburo could have behaved like its Chinese counterparts, and massacred the protestors in Prague, Dresden, Leipzig etc. The fall of the berlin wall was an *effect* of Gorbachevian liberalisationk, not a cause of it. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Russia in 1989-91 had no choice. The writing was on the wall once the Berlin Wall fell. Regarding Ch… https://t.co/Couuz8PDJW

Posted Aug. 25, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@oilpaul @taylorcolumnist Who are you accusing of hindsight, and why? — PolitiTweet.org

@TaylorColumnist @ClarkeMicah @Telegraph @AllisonPearson @toadmeister @DanielJHannan @JuliaHB1 Hindsight is a wonderful thing. /sarc

Posted Aug. 25, 2022

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2/2 @danelawdave . It would be naive in the extreme to imagine that Western protests would have made any difference. China didn't care what the West said about Tiananmen. And the Kremlin had been repeatedly permitted to crush revolts by NATO, in Berlin, Prague, Budapest etc. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Russia in 1989-91 had no choice. The writing was on the wall once the Berlin Wall fell. Regarding Ch… https://t.co/Couuz8PDJW

Posted Aug. 25, 2022