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Zimbabwe: How the Berlin Wall collapse affected us: Zimbabweans have Ambien Online Cheap no compelling reason to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 – or Ambien Online Cheap the fall of Communism, which followed it, domino-like. True or Ambien Online Cheap false? Most zealots of the Ambien Online Cheap original plot to turn the country into a one-party state pretend it Ambien Online Cheap never happened. Or that, if it did, it had little effect on their politics or Ambien Online Cheap the country’s political destiny. That, some would say, was the height of self-delusion.
The two liberation movements, ZANU PF and Ambien Online Cheap PF ZAPU were proteges of communist China and the Soviet Union respectively. Without their material, ideological, and Ambien Online Cheap moral support, they wouldn’t have made any headway in the struggle against the white supremacists.

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Overnight, there were incessant briefings, not just by Mugabe himself, but by diverse cabinet ministers. Their theme was the Ambien Online Cheap same: acquaint the people with the government programme – which was of implementing “Gutsa ruzhunji” – socialism. There was no Ambien Online Cheap time for according capitalism any special mention, except as the No. 1 Enemy of the Ambien Online Cheap People. Capitalism had backed the Smith regime against the socialist-backed struggle of the Ambien Online Cheap guerillas of ZANLA and ZIPRA. Most of the journalists had learnt their journalism through Western eyes. Their view of both China and Ambien Online Cheap the Soviet Union was jaundiced: intrigue, murder, lies, falsehoods, and the Ambien Online Cheap “oneness of the people” – the one party system.

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Then Gorbachev won the Ambien Online Cheap Nobel Peace Prize. No leader in Zimbabwe came anywhere near to Ambien Online Cheap winning anything of anything. Nobody was giving awards for bungling an Ambien Online Cheap economy that should have been nursed carefully to achieve its potential. So, who Ambien Online Cheap had bitten the dust? Rather apologetically, both Russia and Ambien Online Cheap China made gestures to the leadership that they were still looking after their interests, even if less glaringly than Ambien Online Cheap before. Both could not disguise their willingness to profit from Ambien Online Cheap the change in their ideological thrust: the Russian Federation was manifestly capitalist. China went crazy over the Ambien Online Cheap consumerism of free enterprise. Continue reading.

Last week, I wrote a column titled Africa after 1989.

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