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The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the newspapers from 1988 and 1989, or leaf through notebooks from the time, to realise just how reductive...
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Walls designed to keep people in or out — whether they are in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel or Korea — are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders'...
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First person by Bouthaina Shaaban No anniversary has been given the celebrations, writings, and speeches, or a wider-scale Western interest as the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9. A significant number of Western officials marked...
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Some noted authorities say we are witnessing history in the making: the dismantling from within of Beijing’s Berlin Wall, the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. Zeng Ning, a well-known democratic activist and analyst in Guizhou Province, said in a telephone...
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But no continent benefited more than Asia, whose dramatic economic rise since 1989 has occurred at a speed and scale without parallel in world history. For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of communism...
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Germany's resurgent Jews Overcoming the legacies of pogrom and Holocaust, Germany's Jews are beginning to put down secure roots The date 9 November has often been called the Schicksalstag ("day of fate") in German history, marking the day in 1918 Philipp...
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Freedom, though, came to the East Berliners all at once, in an unexpected flood, on Nov. 9, 1989, thanks to one powerful word that was uttered erroneously at a press conference by a member of the ruling Communist Party. No longer able to control defections...
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Mr Sarkozy’s desire to be at the centre of events has now been parodied in a series of spoof photographs, showing him leading the French to victory in the 1998 Football World Cup and storming the Bastille in 1789. He has been shown seated next to Winston...
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Berlin Wall, the Kristallnacht, and the destruction of Mostar’s Old Bridge; Start the Conversation Guidelines
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Next week we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Nov. 9, 1989). Representing the collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War and the unification of the two Germanys, this event was also the beginning of a new era...
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