It is exciting to see that the spirit and pride of K.S.A still prevails in the Eastern States. I think a regional proximity has led to high level of coordination and cohesion among states in the East. KSA News bulletin is a success story. The KSA’s candle that is meant to stay on in all states is blurring in the West, but the light hasn’t gone off yet.
ONCE UPON a time, the Soviet Union and the United States were allies who fought together against their common foes. Immediately after the Second World War, their ideological differences in foreign policies and national interests sharply divided them into East and the West blocs, less interested on one another.
Differences emerged between the East and the West leading to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Later the Superpowers realized that peaceful co-existence is a key to bring East and the West into the compass. As a result, they forged new political convergence and the Berlin Wall was crashed in 1989. The East and the West Berlin were once again reunited under one flag and one chancellor.
A city that was simply divided by political ideologies was united in a majestic move that surprised the whole world. Later the amalgamation of East and West Berlin revived a new image of Deutschland. Great men and women from East and West Berlin were equally integrated into the system and later serve as the pioneers and architects of modern Germany.
Historians eventually concluded that the Berlin Blockage of 1947 and the building of Berlin Wall in 1961 signified political voraciousness reflected in foreign policies and national interests of the Soviet Union and the United States. Many historians also referred the ‘Berlin Wall’ as “a Wall of Shame”, brought upon by ignorance and miscalculations.
The Berlin Wall was a fiasco hampering social, cultural, economic and political cohesion and development between East and West Berlin. Once it was torn down in 1989, the city was united and barrier was no longer an issue in the city.
Thanks to God, a nation divided by ideas and concrete was united. The presumption of consanguinity between East and West was undeniable. There is one Germany known to the World; it was one Germany that was divided into two by ideas and people.
"Well may we say that God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor General". Gough Whitlam 1975.
I believe we shall always remain as Kongor people and community and all it contains, although we might sometimes be divided by ideas.
Long live Kongor Community
By Bul Gayo