Nov 7th, 2009 - FOXNews
For decades the Berlin Wall separated Communist East Germany from Democratic West Germany, and prevented the free flow of peoples, trade and ideas. But it was also a symbol of tyranny.
The people on the Eastern side of the Berlin Wall were serfs to an all-powerful state, with no control over their own destiny and no ability to change those who ruled them. The people on the Western side of the Berlin Wall were free. Their economies thrived, they traded and traveled throughout the world, they created their own government and chose their leaders. It was as if one side of the wall were in black and white and the other side in Technicolor.
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Germany Remembers Fall of Berlin Wall
Nov 9th, 2009 - AOL News
BERLIN (Nov. 9) - With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.
Merkel, Brown, Sarkozy Mark 20 Years After Fall of Berlin Wall
Nov 9th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel called itthe “happiest day in German history.” French President NicolasSarkozy drove all the way from Paris to witness it...
Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall
Nov 9th, 2009 - Boston
BERLIN—With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.Berlin Wall anniversary: escapees tell of night they fled to West by boat
Nov 9th, 2009 - Telegraph
But the Berlin Wall was but one tile in the mosaic of oppression. What Winston Churchill dubbed the 'Iron Curtain,' which fell on Europe after the Second World War, was...
Berlin Wall anniversary: A magical night that changed the world
Nov 9th, 2009 - Telegraph
I will never forget the hum. Let's call it the Hum of History. I landed in West Berlin within hours of the announcement that the Wall was now open and already the city was a seething mass of incredulous humanity...
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