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The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo
Moscow :: Russia | 1 day ago
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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...
Tags: West Berliners, Western Europe, New Europe, Paris-Moscow Express, Neue Kantstra, black market, West Germany, Berlin Wall, Bahnhof Zoo, Warsaw, Russia, Moscow, Kaunas, Eurolines, Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
The difference is in the will to destroy a wall
Nicosia :: Cyprus | 1 day ago
Credibility 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'...
Tags: Berlin Wall, North Korean, Israeli, Nicosia, Cyprus, Liberal democracies, Israel, Separation barriers, Divided regions, Levant, Politics
The most dangerous of walls
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Berlin, Western, Palestinians, berlin walls, 21st century, Iraq, Palestine, walls separating, western officials, using president, Germany, Palestinian people, Berlin Wall, Israel Palestine and the United Nations, Politics, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Fertile Crescent, Separation barriers
China's Berlin Wall is Eroding from Within
Berlin :: Germany | 3 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Berlin Wall, China, Mr. Zeng, Chinese Communist Party, Eastern European Bloc, CCP, Germany, Berlin, The Epoch Times, Zeng, Communist Party of China, Sound of Hope, Falun Gong, Economic ideologies, Communism, Politics
Asia benefited most from fall of Berlin Wall
New Delhi :: India | 4 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: China, Asian, India, Berlin Wall, cold war, Russia, New Delhi, Eastern Bloc, Revolutions, Soviet Union, Foreign relations of India, Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China, Tiananmen Square protests, Communism, Politics
Germany's resurgent Jews | Alexander Goldberg and Silke Goldberg
Munich :: Germany | 4 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Eastern Germany, Berlin Wall, East Berlin, jewish communities, West Berlin, Berlin Republic, Germany, Munich, Kristallnacht, Secular Jewish culture, Jew, Berlin, The Holocaust, Jewish history, November, November 9th in German history, Religion Belief
The day one wrong word changed history
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 4 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: West Berlin, west berliners, East Berliners, Hansi, Bob Rigney, east germans, Pan American Airlines, West Germany, Rigneys, Berlin Wall, Guatemala, Guatemala City
French have a good laugh at President’s expense
Tripoli :: Libya | 5 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Berlin Wall, Mr Sarkozy, Libya, Tripoli, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics of Italy, Hungarian nobility, A.C. Milan, Silvio Berlusconi, Politics
CEE: The Berlin Wall
Cee :: Spain | 5 days ago
Credibility Berlin Wall, the Kristallnacht, and the destruction of Mostar’s Old Bridge; Start the Conversation Guidelines
Tags: Berlin Wall, Spain, Cee, Republics, Serbian people, Serbs, Macedonia, Slavic countries, Landlocked countries, Liberal democracies, Politics
Between The Walls
Arbil :: Iraq | 5 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Turkish-Iraqi, Basra, Mosul, Baghdad, Arbil, berlin walls, Berlin Wall, concrete blocks, security walls, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Occupation of Iraq timeline, Fertile Crescent
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