...Obama evidently expected that his election would change not only America's image in the world but the policies of nations both friendly and unfriendly. In saluting the fall of the Berlin Wall, on videotape, he made no mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev or Vaclav Havel, but cited as a world-changing event his own election in the United States...
“..At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin this week, one of the defining figures of last century’s history celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in which he played a key role. Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton, invited to listen to Daniel Barenboim conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin, were in the audience. But the star [...]
At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin this week, one of the defining figures of last century's history celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in which he played a key role.Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton,...
Jewish leaders too often lose their moral compass over Israel, but we ourselves are to blame if we do not hold them to account There was something both homely and understatedly heroic about the Guardian front page photo of Angela Merkel, Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa taken during the celebrations marking 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall . None of them is a saint, but the roles they played...
Twenty years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell and in doing so, set off a string of momentous events that in short order saw the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and freedoms and democracy spread across a long-oppressed part of the world. Few events in modern history have had such a significant impact on the lives of so many people, but momentum for the wall’s fall...
Monday's celebration in Berlin was a brilliant closure. The opening of a European foreign policy looks more shaky Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of the wall in Berlin night a genuinely, even an unexpectedly moving affair. The organisers, presumably guided by Angela Merkel, got almost every accent right. Freedom, Europe and the wider world...
German newsmagazine Der Spiegel notes that US President Barack Obama shelved apparent plans to attend the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, of which Toby Harnden at the Daily Telegraph said: Perhaps Obama felt that celebrating the role of the United States in bringing down the wall would be a bit triumphalist and not quite in keeping with his wish to present America as a declining world...
Monday night saw the official celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the historic events which saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and paved the way for German reunification. Sadly, the night was cold and wet – the rain was falling in torrents as we made our way to Potsdamer Platz and walked towards the Brandenburg Gate. We managed to stand right next to one of the large screens on which proceedings...
Sure, he doesn't want to celebrate the fall of communism in Europe, flying a big RED flag that his socialist, statist policies won't work. There's a bigger reason, however. HIS EGO! He'd have to share the stage! Have you seen the photos!!! OMG! Every important president, chancellor, premier and former- anybody of Western Civilization is there. UK Premier Gordon Brown French President Nicholas Sarkozy...
Berlin - Nobel Peace Prize winners Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa engaged in a round of tit-for-tat rebukes Tuesday as the pair celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in Berlin. After the Polish Solidarity union leader Walesa last...
T he Fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 is an enormous happening worthy of celebration. Last night, I marked the event in New York by attending a special discussion by four U.S. foreign correspondents and a photographer who recorded the historic day in person. The reporters, including those from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, described the sense of surprise, the total joy...
Kristallnacht remembered in Berlin: "Source: [b]Morning Star[/b][b]Kristallnacht remembered in BerlinMonday 09 November 2009[/b]As German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov and ex-Polish president Lech Walesa celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, more subdued tributes we..."Read the full article at the link.
Here is video of the celebration in Berlin, Germany today marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down on November 9, 1989. A series of 1,000 "domino-like" wall sections were set up for the observance, and Poland's solidarity leader Lech Walesa was asked to do the honors of pushing the first section over which started the domino effect as they all fell.
Fallen dominos along the former border in front of the Brandenburg Gate are seen after they were made to fall in a symbolic act in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, during the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov.9, 1989. Giant dominos placed along the former border in front of the Brandenburg Gate fall in a symbolic act in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov....
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...
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