Change Through Rapprochement Egon Bahr's concept of "change through rapprochement" never really had prospects for success as the subsequent years showed and as hindsight, which always sees 20/20, indicates. The Communist case for "demarcation" for instance, reiterated in 1971, and the petition for an exit visa, written by the actor Manfred Krug in 1977, both showed that East and West Germany were moving in two diametrically opposed directions. Neither was willing to yield an inch and both proscribed certain thoughts and actions -- thought crimes, so to speak, for which Krug paid a price in 1977 (having lost a number of jobs because of a letter signed to protest the banishment of a friend). East and West Germany were also symbolic of the greater forces at work in the world -- the forces pulling and pushing and vying for power in the latter half of the 20th century -- Soviets on one side, and the U.S. on the other. The Cold War was raging red hot and whatever optimistic "change through rapprochement" existed in July of 1963 died in November of that same year when U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated in the cold light of day before a crowd of Texans. Kennedy had signaled rapprochement directly with Khrushchev and averted a crisis building in Cuba. Kennedy's death signaled that the deeper levers of the State would not allow such rapprochement...
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush -- never was rapprochement anywhere near their policies (even when they tried to get it there -- as Carter did, for example, when he sought peace in the Middle East). Change would only really come when the Soviet Union would fall under the weight of its own corruption and the machinations of Western powers.
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N. In the 1960s had backfired. Generations of schoolchildren had practiced the useless "duck and cover" exercise under their desks in case of a nuclear attack, and thousands of families still had the remnants of a bomb shelter in their basements or backyards. And all living at the time remember the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Soviet nuclear missiles 90 miles away -- and the world just "this" close to war
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