Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
26th June 2012, 08:41
Good piece of 'Western' capitalist propoganda.
The US President, John F Kennedy, has made a ground-breaking speech in Berlin offering American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany.
A crowd of 120,000 Berliners gathered in front of the Schöneberg Rathaus (City Hall) to hear President Kennedy speak.
They began gathering in the square long before he was due to arrive, and when he finally appeared on the podium they gave him an ovation of several minutes.
The president had just returned from a visit on foot to one of the Berlin Wall's most notorious crossing points, Checkpoint Charlie.
He was watched from the other side of the border by small groups of East Berliners unable even to wave because of the presence of large groups of the East German People's Police.
In an impassioned speech, the president told them West Berlin was a symbol of freedom in a world threatened by the Cold War.
"Two thousand years ago," he told the crowd, "the proudest boast in the world was 'civis Romanus sum'.
"Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'" "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect," he continued. "But we never had to put up a wall to keep our people in."
(More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_3379000/3379061.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_3379000/3379061.stm))
The US President, John F Kennedy, has made a ground-breaking speech in Berlin offering American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany.
A crowd of 120,000 Berliners gathered in front of the Schöneberg Rathaus (City Hall) to hear President Kennedy speak.
They began gathering in the square long before he was due to arrive, and when he finally appeared on the podium they gave him an ovation of several minutes.
The president had just returned from a visit on foot to one of the Berlin Wall's most notorious crossing points, Checkpoint Charlie.
He was watched from the other side of the border by small groups of East Berliners unable even to wave because of the presence of large groups of the East German People's Police.
In an impassioned speech, the president told them West Berlin was a symbol of freedom in a world threatened by the Cold War.
"Two thousand years ago," he told the crowd, "the proudest boast in the world was 'civis Romanus sum'.
"Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'" "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect," he continued. "But we never had to put up a wall to keep our people in."
(More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_3379000/3379061.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_3379000/3379061.stm))