To mark the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany, a group of world leaders from past and present—including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hillary Rodham Clinton—joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday for a stroll through the Brandenberg Gate, which formerly stood between East and West Berlin. —KA The New York Times: The anniversary has provided...
Berlin - A thousand giant dominoes toppled in central Berlin on Monday, marking the moment when the Berlin Wall separating the East and West of the city was first breached, 20 years ago. Former Polish opposition leader and President Lech Walesa set t...
Reporting live from the Berlin Wall NBC's Tom Brokaw, on Monday's "Today" show, never once mentioned Ronald Reagan's name and his role in helping to end the Cold War, but did find time to praise Mikhail Gorbachev and "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer even wondered if it was "a little egocentric" to look at the fall of the Wall as an "American victory," as seen in...
What is missing from these two articles? The first is from the Associated Press, commemorating the anniversary of the historic day when the Berlin wall came a-tumblin' down: Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin...
Why the nuclear freeze movement, of course. I read it in the Boston Globe this morning: But Gorbachev and Reagan were both responding to something else - the pressures from below of grass-roots movements for peace on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Unimagined by realists, unforeseen by the CIA, a nonviolent democracy movement, beginning with Lech Walesa’s Solidarity in Poland, and spreading...
• Berlin marks 20th anniversary of wall's tumbling • Angela Merkel joined by Mikhail Gorbachev Tens of thousands of people, including dissidents, songwriters, priests and political leaders who helped to engineer the collapse of communism in the former eastern bloc, braved a cold, persistent drizzle today to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the cold war. Germany's...
25 years ago, NO ONE thought the Berlin would ever fall. That Mother Russia would fall from world domination. That the ultimate change from that action would be the European Union, as opposed to the strict "East" and "West" parts of the continent. There have been events leading up to this day, but today there will be ceremonies and concerts, and many remembrances from those who...
Twenty years ago on this day, the Berlin Wall was brought down, removing the division between Communist East Germany and Capitalist West Germany. Shortly afterwards, the Communist regime in East Germany collapsed and German unity (Deutsche Einheit) took place. Five thousand people attempted to escape from East to West Berlin via the Wall. One hundred were killed doing so. They are being remembered...
Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitry Medvedev, Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel are among international notables also taking part in 20th anniversary celebrations Gordon Brown will today join other world leaders in Germany for the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, and the US secretary of state,...
I don't often wish for access to a TV, but this I'd like to see ... Berlin's moment of freedom that turned world history | World news | The Guardian ...Later that night, a young East German scientist called Angela Merkel walked across the same crossing. Now the chancellor of united Germany, she will do the same again this afternoon, accompanied by a group of East German opposition activists, Mikhail...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to descend on the centre of the German capital today to recapture the euphoric mood that swept across Europe when the Berlin Wall tumbled, and the cold war ended two decades ago. The €5.1m (£4.6m) commemoration fest der freiheit (freedom festival) marks the start of a wave of events over the coming days and weeks to commemorate the collapse of...
BERLIN -- Daniel Barenboim, who was in town the night the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, is joining Bon Jovi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton to celebrate the 20th anniversary.
Journalists often like to start out an interview with a softball question to break the ice before moving on to controversial topics. This tactic clearly doesn't work on former Polish President and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa: SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are you looking forward to travelling to Berlin on Monday for the 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall? Walesa: It's not important whether...
Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate looks back on the symbol of the Cold War and of a divided Europe.
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