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Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall came down, pushed by a people who said, "Enough is enough." Enough of communism with its dysfunctional economy and its oppressive control. The shouts and the clamber of the East Berliners ignited sparks that...
Tags: Moldova, Berlin Wall, East Berliners, West Berlin, Tell Zoya, berliners wall, Chişinău, East Germany, Transnistria, Eastern bloc, Anti-communism, Allied occupation of Germany, Politics
Bohley was expelled from East Germany a year before the Berlin Wall fell for taking part in protests seeking an end to human rights abuses. On her return she became one of the leaders of the country’s dissident movement and co-founded the “New Forum”...
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The journalists' version of events has now been verified by the photographer who took the picture 20 years ago. According to his official Facebook page, Mr Sarkozy was chipping away at the wall along with the German locals on November 9, 1989. Mr Sarkozy...
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Berlin Wall comes to Moscow Published 10 November, 2009, 19:20 To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, French collector Sylvestre Verger presents his collection of 43 works that were made either on the Wall or are related...
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A panicked border guard using his gun was our biggest worry� Published: 9 Nov 09 12:03 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091109-23129.html The fall of the Berlin Wall sparked celebration, but also and chaos in both halves of the city...That...
Tags: Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, East Berliners, berliners wall, Brandenburg Gate, Germany
It was the climax of peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe that would pave the way for German reunification and the spread of democracy across the continent. The abrupt end to Berlin's three decades of physical division triggered great upheaval and...
Tags: Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Berliners, East Berlin, berliners wall, East Germany, Angela Merkel, cold war, east germans, west berliners
Leaders from across the continent were due in the German capital to join around 100,000 revellers Monday at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of national unity since the peaceful revolution that tore down the Wall in 1989. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
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Pedestrians walk past a domino piece painted with a pigeon in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 7, 2009. A row of giant dominos with bright color is placed along the original route of the former Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate to the Potsdamer Platz.
Tags: East Berliners, Berlin Wall, berliners wall, West Berlin, East Germany, giant domino, 20th anniversary, Washington, Sofia
At the age of 7, Mercedes Wild waved excitedly at each U.S. plane that circled over her Berlin home and landed at Tempelhof Airport, packed with supplies to feed Berliners during the Soviets' Cold War blockade. Today, Wild, 67, is fighting against plans...
Tags: West Berliners, Berlin Wall, Tempelhof Airport, multimedia guide, berliners wall