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The Wall came down 20 years ago, but nostalgia for communism lingers in Berlin
Berlin :: PA :: USA | 3 days ago
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Twenty years ago, I was a bearded little Dorothy going through a "Wizard of Oz" moment, only in reverse. In October 1989, I passed through Checkpoint Charlie and stepped from the Technicolor world of West Berlin, with all its blue neon theater signs,...
Tags: East Berliners, West Berlin, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin Brigade, Berliner Dom, Ostalgia, world war, war ii, Unter den Linden, German Democratic Republic, Berlin, East Germany, Politics, Cold War, Mitte, Pariser Platz, Eastern bloc, Potsdamer Platz
A reason to remember
Chişinău :: Moldova | 5 days ago
Credibility 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
The day one wrong word changed history
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 13 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
'A panicked border guard using his gun was our biggest worry'
Berlin :: Germany | 21 days ago
Credibility 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
Giant dominos form tribute to Berlin Wall's collapse
Berlin :: Germany | 23 days ago
Credibility 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
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