The coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the blogosphere has been stellar. Since I was barely 12 years old at the time and hadn't been exposed to the economic way of thinking, I remember the pictures on television more than anything else.
However, while in Prague with Pete in the early 2000s, we interviewed people involved in the transition. Here's one of my favorite passages from an interview we conducted with a Czech citizen who was a teenager when communism collapsed in Czechoslovakia:
I went to Vienna with my mother. I wanted to cry when I looked in the shop windows. There were so many things in the windows that I could only dream of owning before that day. By the end of our trip, my eyes were sore from looking at so many different goods, and my feet were sore because we could not afford public transportation around Vienna.
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