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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The most amazing thing about the Berlin Wall is that the world didn't see it coming.</p>\n<p>It's easy to dismiss this as hindsight bias.  But at least one man - the brilliant German classical liberal Eugen Richter - saw the Wall coming over sixty years before it went up.  In 1891, decades and revolutions before Orwell's Animal Farm, Richter published Pictures of the Socialist Future.  It's a dystopian novel about what happens to Germany after a socialist takeover.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I just finished reading the aforementioned book; it's available as a free PDF <a href=\"http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Richter/rchtPSF.html\">here</a>; it really is astounding that Richter, in 1891, was able to foresee so accurately and well.  Via <em><a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/11/the_writing_on.html\">The Writing on the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a></em>.</p>\n"
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