Tensions between Civic and Material Values in Post-Communist Societies
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
The collapse of the Berlin Wall came as the result of social, political and economic pressures that built up over decades behind the Iron Curtain. Its demise has exposed some glaring material differences in post-Communist societies. Social activists say governments cannot narrow those differences in the absence of civic values among ordinary citizens. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports on the civic spirit that made possible a key event leading to the collapse of the Wall, and what became of it since.
