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By Anthony P. Dolan Ronald Reagan would embarrass himself and the country by asking Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, which was going to be there for decades. Full Article at Wall Street Journal
On that cold night, years of separation and anxiety melted into the unbelievable reality of freedom and a future without border guards, secret police, informers and rigid communist control. Full Article at The Scotsman
Combo of pictures taken in September 2009 in Berlin shows some of the electoral posters of the far-left MLPD (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany) for the German general elections taking place on September 27, 2009. View Photo »
I find it obscene that National Radio broadcasters Geoff Robinson and Lloyd Scott this morning recalled the Berlin Wall, its twenty-eight years of bloodshed and the 1200 slaughtered East Germans, with wistful nostalgia. They even appeared to excuse the East German secret police, the Stasi, as people jus...
Advertisement Brian Hanrahan looks back on the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall When the East German government made its first confused announcement about permitting free travel to the West, the BBC's Brian Hanrahan in East Berlin set off to... Full Article at BBC News
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC World Service global poll finds that dissatisfaction with free market capitalism is widespread, with an average of only 11% across 27 countries saying that it works well and that greater... Full Article at Dawn
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well. Full Article at BBC News
BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Atsede Besuye is seen after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. View Photo »
The Berlin Wall was always a symbol of the division of Europe ... Its fall was seen as a continuation of the path to European unity.
To freeze a fragile status quo, to consolidate one's position, or to remain separate from others perceived as temptations or threats (or both) – such have always been the goals of politicians who build walls. Full Article at The Scotsman
Paris -- France is staging a big celebration for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to make amends for not sharing the euphoria of the momentous event in 1989, the minister for Europe said Sunday. Full Article at Expatica
Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the heart of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region, located in northeastern Germany. With a population of 3.4 million, Berlin is the country's largest city, and the second most populous city in the European Union. Full Article
Combo of pictures taken in September 2009 in Berlin shows some of the electoral posters of the far-left MLPD (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany) for the German general elections taking place on September 27, 2009.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Atsede Besuye is seen after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Atsede Besuye celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Medals are seen prior to the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners competed in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. More than 40,000 runners competed in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Athletes compete the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. On Sunday more than 40,000 runners compete in this annual race in the German capital.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Haile Gebrselassie celebrates after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: Atsede Besuye is seen after winning the 36th Berlin Marathon on September 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
View Photo »I find it obscene that National Radio broadcasters Geoff Robinson and Lloyd Scott this morning recalled the Berlin Wall, its twenty-eight years of bloodshed and the 1200 slaughtered East Germans, with wistful nostalgia. They even appeared to excuse the East German secret police, the Stasi, as people jus...
The Berlin Wall was always a symbol of the division of Europe ... Its fall was seen as a continuation of the path to European unity.
East Germany's ex-leaders always denied they had ordered soldiers to shoot people trying to flee across the Berlin Wall. However, documents which surfaced in 2007 proved without doubt that such an order did exist. 'Don't hesitate to use your weapon even when border breaches happen with women and childre...
Many now forget ... that the fall of the Berlin wall was not the cause of global changes but to a great extent the consequence of deep, popular reform movements that started in the east, and the Soviet Union in particular.
We are now moving towards the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and Germany being reunified after so many painful years ... And this is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up in East Germany, who understands what it's like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial re...
At a time when France and Germany are preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, a symbol of the end of the cold war and the peaceful re-unification of Europe, the division of Cyprus offers to the world the lamentable sight of the last wall in Europe
Ahead of us may be a time when the artificial barriers that divide Germany, and indeed all of Europe, are cast away, a time when there will be no need for weapons or barbed wire or walls in Berlin.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the few German events that had worldwide impact because it put a stop to the communist advance to the rest of Europe
In your face, Dublin. As for Galway, Limerick and Waterford -- in your faces too. In your face Kilkenny, ye don't even have an airport. Kerry, what good is your All Ireland now? While we're at it, in your face Paris, Berlin and New York -- ye didn't even make the top 10, ye shower of langers. And by the...
For a Berlin without a wall, in a Germany without tanks, in a Europe without borders
The Berlin Wall could disappear when those conditions that created it disappear
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the EU is now a reincarnation of the Soviet Union
Nuclear testing, disarmament, Berlin, Vietnam and the struggle between Russia and China are nothing comparable to the Elizabeth Taylor story.
Many people realized that with the fall of the Berlin wall, World War II was well and truly over
What I love about the place is that the people there are very open-minded and accept everybody the way they are. Tel Aviv likes to think of itself as such a liberal city as well, but deep down it is not a very open society ... As long as the Berlin Wall existed, it was easy for Israel to condemn it. How...
Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, have we really managed to embed those optimistic projections we made then about dominos falling and tyrants surrendering and liberal democracy triumphing and Europe living happily together and as one?
When this boulevard is finished it will be one of the finest highways in the world and will compare with the famous boulevards of Paris, Vienna and Berlin
If the Soviet Union had wished ... there would have been nothing, no fall of the Berlin Wall and no German unification. But what would have happened? A catastrophe or World War III.
The Berlin Wall has been replaced with a sanitary cordon of ex-Soviet nations, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea
On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is high time that the separation barrier be dismantled in accordance with the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague
East Berlin was very gray. There was no color, and even the sky seemed gray
Danke schon Berlin. Live is where this band lives. It’s all that counts... If you have given us this award I guess that’s what you’re thinking and it means a great deal to us.
I just want to think about this moment -- feel this moment that we're in this beautiful city of Berlin. Beautiful occasion to have been here
I'm invited to Berlin to tip over the first domino
The Pariser Platz was the scene for a joyful celebration of peace, love, freedom and music that Berlin will never forget. Congratulations to U2 and MTV for bringing this unique moment of musical history to the city of Berlin.
The night the Berlin Wall fell - BBC News http://bit.ly/oRZWv
- poluakerford 10 minutes ago
Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall fell. Amazing!
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6. Jahrestagung Kulturwirtschaft: Mittwoch, 11 Nov 2009, Berlin http://bit.ly/2ocHlF
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Nordischer Filmklub: Mittwoch, 11 Nov 2009, Berlin http://bit.ly/3CfkIy
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