A selection of comments from ceremonies, remembrances of the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. – “Sometimes people forget today how many could not leave (the country) for ...

But to understand any of those events requires a knowledge of what came before and what ... The fall of the Berlin Wall was not the beginning of the collapse of communism: it was the pivotal ...

have gone down in history. While other quotes are not so pithy, they give insight to what both sides were thinking, before and after the Berlin Wall was built.

The fall of the Berlin Wall came to symbolize the collapse of the Soviet Union ... and privileges and a loose political confederation, before total reunification, would have been a softer landing ...

When the Berlin Wall ... Berlin before it, is the first battle. The struggle against communism is the most successful human-rights movement in history, yet it is far from over. The collapse ...

And it was another predecessor, Ronald Reagan, who even more famously stood before the heinous ... he paved the way for the collapse not only of the Berlin Wall but of communism itself.

Before they could open ... points between the two halves of Berlin soon followed suit. Open In New Window The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, by Mary Elise Sarotte Thus ...

The Berlin Wall ... used a bow and arrow to send a wire cable over the wall, where his brother, who had escaped to the West nearly a decade before, secured it. Bethke then shimmied along the ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13 ... German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Most of the wall was torn down quickly after, but ...

November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Over the years, experts have been looking at the reasons for the collapse of ... with what was there before.

(Revisit National Geographic's reporting from West Berlin before the ... literally tear down the wall with sledgehammers and chisels. Less than a month later, the GDR collapsed entirely, and ...