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What the Fall of the Wall Really Meant: Workers World reviews Victor Grossman’s “A Socialist Defector”

February 1986, East Berlin. Victor Grossman, left, greets Pete Seeger, a guest at the Festival of Political Songs.

February 1986, East Berlin. Victor Grossman, left, greets Pete Seeger, a guest at the Festival of Political Songs.

A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
352 pp, $23 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-738-4
By Victor Grossman

Reviewed by John Catalinotto

“This Nov. 9, the world’s imperialists and big capitalists will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. They will fill the media, all too available to them, with lies claiming this event was a victory for democracy and freedom. They will be slandering the German Democratic Republic and all the good and progressive acts of the once-socialist part of Germany….”

Read the review at Workers World/Mundo Obero

A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Victor Grossman

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