The Berlin Wall Was Not the First to Fall
Economy: Stuck In a 1989 Mindset Archival Footage: Building the Wall Archival Footage: The Wall Comes Down Communism's collapse dates back to two key developments earlier that year. In Poland, the regime of Gen. Wojciech... [read full story]
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Three Authors on Why the Berlin Wall Fell
Three new books argue over how the impossible—the fall of the Berlin Wall—came to pass. Everything happened so quickly that the participants, from policymakers in Washington to Germans in the streets and Soviet apparatchiks,...
Gorbachev on His Legacy, and Obama's Chance to Lead an American Perestroika
The former Soviet leader on his push for a peaceful dissolution of the Russian empire, and his idea that the US should follow suit. In the United States it is said that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of a divided...
TIMELINE - East Germany-From wartime ashes to unity
Following is timeline of East Germany which united with the West just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. May 8, 1945 - Nazi Germany capitulates, country divided into A woman walks next to a mural of a...
Cold War heroes remember fall of the wall
by Stefan Nicola Berlin (UPI) Nov 2, 2009 Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush met this weekend in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On Saturday, however, the stage was set...
20 Years On
WASHINGTON -- Historical moments are best judged from a distance, when the eye is able to focus on the whole canvas. Given the misconceptions that seem to surround the fall of the Berlin Wall, what is striking about the 20th...
Cracking the Berlin Wall
On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from both East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall. At several border crossing points, East Berliners began shouting at the armed communist guards, demanding they open the...
Moscow could have started WW3 over Berlin Wall: Gorbachev
Source: Yahoo News (11-3-09) MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin could have started World War Three in 1989 had it used troops to crush the demonstrations that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Soviet leader Mikhail...
Gorbachev 'proud' of role in fall of Berlin Wall
04/11/2009Gorbachev 'proud' of role in fall of Berlin Wall The former Soviet leader is widely admired in the West but often criticised in Russia for policies that led to economic chaos and the dismantling of Moscow's sprawling...
Gorbachev lauds role in fall of Berlin Wall
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 MOSCOW: Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday that he was proud of his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, defending himself against Russian critics who accuse him of losing the Soviet...
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