Niklas Ekdal on the 89er generation

Commentator Niklas Ekdal writes in the authors' blog Newsmill on the generation of 89ers, those who have been strongly influenced by the events of 20 years ago: "With a bit of good will you could say that this revolution was a German thing and had nothing to do with us. Yet the conflict between democracy and Soviet communism was universal to the highest degree. There is a basic ideological difference between 1968 and 1989. And on an anniversary such as this such differences can't help spreading a mood of gloom. The student revolt was a utopian uprising, whereas the fall of the Wall was anti-utopian. Ultimately the escapist revolt [of 1968] exerted more appeal on people than the dismantling of the despotic and elitist castles in the air. That should be a lesson for the next generation of twenty-year-olds who want to overturn everything to build their own dream world."

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