Early 90's Pepsi commercial

*Okay, I;m not sure if this was real late 80's or early 90's, but it's a Pepsi commercial showing the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.

Here's some info for you- in one point in this commercial you see a spraypainted sentence that reads "Charlie retired 10 Nov. 1989". That is in reference to a crossing point in the Berlin Wall that was named "Checkpoint Charlie" or "Checkpoint C" Also, the people you see with the chisels & sledgehammers hacking at wall, they were chipping off pieces of the wall for souvenirs & they were nicknamed "Mauerspechte" which means "Wall Woodpeckers".
The Berlin Wall had 4 verisions, but the last one had smooth pipe on the top of the wall, mesh & signal fences, dogs, barbed wire, anti-vehicle trenches & even a bed of nails.(They weren't playin',..you weren't getting out!) That's your history lesson for today....everyone say thank you to wikipedia.

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Entertainment

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• 90's
• commercial
• pepsi
• berlin
• wall
• torn
• down

[enzorussian]

haha so comercialism won after all



[xxFzeroxx]

Boo Pepsi!! coca Cola is the real thing

[RKHageman]

Actually, when I saw this the first time it brought tears to my eyes -- and still does. If ever there was an event worth singing Hallelujah about, that's right up there.

There's another copy of this up on YouTube where most of the commenters are saying how crass / tacky/ etc this is of Pepsi, but I don't agree. What I thought was cool was that the commercial doesn't say one thing about Pepsi, until the absolute last frame.

And "...freedom is the greatest gift of all." Love it.