This is a terrific article on which social classes benefitted from the fall of the Berlin wall. For western capitalist propaganda purposes, the fall was “mic’d up” to show a tiny sector of the population who really had something to celebrate along with the paid celebrators. At long last, “democracy” brought to you by such bastions of democracy like Reagan, the Pope, and the CIA. Meanwhile, the majority of citizens did not welcome capitalist fundamentalism and in a 1991 poll, 3/4 of them said so.
