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Pitchwife you are a cynic...
I suppose I was very young at the time and had had a sniff of the Eastern bloc having been to Romania in 87 and Russia in 88 - even the glimpses of Ceaucescu's world tourists could see was horrible. Nuclear war had seemed a real possibility only a few years earlier - at least to a child's understanding so the Autumn of 89 really seemed a hopeful time.
And as Boro said it did enable people to go "home" and make contact with lost families. A great friend of ours was able to return to the Ukraine and it was unbelievably emotional for him having been marched out of his village as a teenager so long before. I put home in quote marks only because he and his like had a love and respect for England that puts most of her birth children to shame..
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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