Today the world is celebrating the day
the Berlin Wall began to crumble. I remember I was doing a course for theatre directors with an eastern German director called
Konrad Zschiedrich, who was then in Valencia. I had asked him about the wall before it crumbled and he had said that there were too many differences that made the reunion of the two Germanies impossible. The main one being the economy: too many differences would make it too expensive for the West. Well, tow days later, there was no wall. Berlin had become one.
The fall of the
Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 signaled the beginning of the end of communism in Europe and the beginning of a new era. No one could anticipate the state of affairs today. The 28-mile-long Berlin Wall stood as a border between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Even today the remains are still impressive.
As things are told today, everything was ready for a dramatic change because the Berlin citizens were demonstarting on the streets demanding a change. Apparently, the detonator was a misreading of an official document. An inexact translation, a confused border guard and a natural longing
for a better life opened a hole in that wall that would eventually end
the Cold War. “The Error That Led to Unity” is the title of the article that revealed the details of the hours before the event that changed the face of Western Europe.
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Have a look at the above links from the New York Times and tell us your oppinion.
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L1_Vicent_ The fall of Berlin Wall
The celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall has brought me mixed feelings. Firstly I was very happy for all the things you can read nowadays in the news, and especially I was happy for all that people who wanted to go out of RDA. I also was happy for all that german people who hadn’t any responsability at all in the II World War but were still suffering consequences fourty years after. In a certain way the crumble of the wall meant the real end of the II World War and the begining of a new era for european citizens.
On the other hand as a spanish citizen who lived twenty years under Franco's dictatorship I feel a certain envy of the german people and frustration , because we spanish people weren’t able to overthrow the dictatorship, but mainly what most bothers me is the hypocrisy with which those who lived comfortably under the Franco’s dictatorship and today still dare to say that there wasn`t any wrong, futhermore they sometimes fill their mouths talking about freedom pretending to give lessons in democracy even to those who fought against Franco’s dictatorship .
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