It interviewed a Hungarian border guard who was on duty on the Hungarian Austrian border the day the first snippets were made in the wire that was the Iron Curtain. On that day he made the decision that no shots were to be fired at the approaching crowds.
He is now a retired man and believes it is time for borders to be re-erected.
It made for profoundly sad viewing.
There is Brexit looming. A far-right person is in contention to be the next Austrian President. France and Le Pen, the AfD in Germany, it's happening everywhere. What's Vladimir Putin thinking?
Donald Trump might well be President Trump next year.
On a rightwing US radio station yesterday the presenter said that it does not matter who is the Republican candidate to defeat Hilary Clinton. He said that the Rebulicans had only one objective and that is to defeat Clinton. And there was a violence in his tone.
All the retrenchment, a return to ways that brought such pain and suffering are also evident in the churches. Maybe churches simply monitor the mood of the times. The self-importance.
The ideals of the EU are being so attacked from so many sides with such ferocity it seems almost impossible that the centre will hold.
A sense of Weimar happening all over again?
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