Story of Writing December 22, 2023

Beethoven performs the greatest concert of his career, U.S. President Harry Truman issues an executive order that gave WW2 refugees precedence in U.S. visa applications, China’s communist-party chairman Mao Zedong forcibly relocates millions of teenagers, Doctors Without Borders is founded, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate reopens, Lech Walesa is elected Poland's President - with a reading from Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment."