Fall of the Berlin Wall: 1989

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Uploaded by on May 31, 2009

A BBC report of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which began in November, 1989. The restriction on refugees going over to the west had been lifted, but the dismantling of the wall was of great symbolic importance around the world, and especially for Germany and Eastern Europe.

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  • @Nebel64 actually it treats me pretty well u stupid backwards american

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  • Never really had to use it, but I haven't been denied any medical services so it's great. People sure do think better of Canada than of America.

  • The west did a far better job of snuffing out Nazi ideology after WWII. It was the east that saw a rise in Nazi hooligans just after the wall came down, not the west. The concept of eastern "protection" was merely communist propaganda. The real motivation for the wall was to halt the political embarrassment of emigration to the west.

  • Honestly, how can you even compare them? The only thing they have in common are that they are walls. Why not protest the walls around prisons while you are at it?

  • Call it "protection from West Germany" all you like, but it was a cage, and your attitude makes them just as much of a clown as were the East Germans and all Communists everywhere.

  • Actually, it was officially designed to protect East Germany from the West. It was the "Anti-Fascist Protection Wall"... so you fail.

  • The Berlin Wall was designed to keep enslaved people in.  What's going on in Israel and on the U.S.-Mexico border is designed to protect law abiding citizens from criminals. They're not comparable.

  • i know you are obviously not advocating that the wall should have stood up for political reasons BUT the wall couldn't have stood up because it would have been a logistical nightmare. Assuming the cities had been reunited but the wall stood up, organization-wise and transportation-wise it would have been a mess to navigate through Berlin. Plus, watching the wall fall down, to me, is one of the most emotional sights in history. And if you go to berlin, parts of the wall are still up.

  • I sorta wish they'd left much of it standing for 2 reasons. First, it would make a great historical reminder so that this never happens again (like it is now in Israel and on the US-Mexico border). Second, it was covered in lots of very cool art... a 90 mile canvas. They shouldn't have destroyed all that.

    Glad the opening happened though!

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