This is the part 2 of the LaRouche movement's "The Lost Chance of 1989" two-part documentary series produced in 2008 in the midst of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
In the Fall of 1989, the collapse of the Berlin Wall signified the beginning of the complete disintegration of the Comecon system, precisely as LaRouche had forecast after the Soviet rejection of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative in 1984. At a press conference in West Berlin in October 1988, LaRouche had proposed the reunification of Germany based on a policy of economic cooperation between East and West to rebuild the ravaged economies of the East Bloc, a cooperation which could have ushered in a completely new era of peace and prosperity. The London-Wall Street banking establishment's response to this proposal was to railroad LaRouche into prison in January 1989 (courtesy of George H.W. Bush), ushering in a political a reign of terror aimed at preventing any such solution from ever taking place. Thus, "The Lost Chance of 1989."
With the brutal silencing of LaRouche and his proposals in the West (which included the assassination of Deutsche Bank head Alfred Herrhausen), German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was terrorized into accepting a global Anglo-American financial dictatorship in exchange for German reunification. This so-called "New World Order" not only effectively ended the sovereignty of European nations under the auspice of the European Union, but also carried out the systematic looting of the former Soviet Union.
Even so, with LaRouche in prison, Helga Zepp-LaRouche took up the historic mission of organizing the newly liberated nations of Eastern Europe to embrace LaRouche's vision of East-West cooperation based on economic development. Originally conceived of as the "Paris-Berlin-Vienna Productive Triangle," this idea rapidly developed into the concept of the Eurasian Landbridge for world economic development, a policy perspective that has subsequently been embraced by top leaders in Russia, China and the majority of peoples on the planet but, absent the full exoneration of LaRouche and his ideas in the United States, is still rejected within the Trans-Atlantic political establishment.
LaRouche concludes this video with the following question, still relevant today: "Do we have the ability today to stand up and to reject this threatened crisis as we tried to back in 1989?"
