The Berlin Wall fell #OTD 1989
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1988 East German Map Which Shows West Berlin
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We should never forget Peter Fechter & the 253 others who died at the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall fell today 1989
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@SeumasMilne @BernieSanders put Peter Fechter’s murder down a memory hole @jeremycorbyn @NaomiAKlein
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
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We should never forget Peter Fechter & the 253 others who died at the Berlin Wall at.FEE.org/1HWKr1s #RealHeroes http://t.co/mbkFxt64D2—
FEE (@feeonline) June 25, 2015
In an otherwise sustained defence of Communist tyranny because they made the trains run on time, Seamus Milne and George Galloway do lament the restrictions on international travel and immigration from Communist dictatorships. They do mutter about perhaps something should have been done about that.
What an extraordinarily callous way to refer to the murder of East Germans at the Berlin Wall. Peter Fechter was the first to be murdered at the Berlin Wall.
Anyone who supports communism supports murder. Central to the Communist strategy of taking power is to murder their political opponents and then to maintain power through murder and torture.
Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. http://t.co/hVWT9Mwh4L—
Vexy Vox (@Vexyvox) November 14, 2014
Bernie Sanders too put the drowning of Cubans attempting to flee to Florida in leaky boats down the memory hole of the Left over Left.
Has Bruce Ackerman just said the dumbest thing ever said?
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in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Berlin wall, Cold War, collapse of communism, East Germany, fall of the Berlin wall, German unification, Germany, Greece, public intellectuals, West Germany
Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. http://t.co/hVWT9Mwh4L—
Vexy Vox (@Vexyvox) November 14, 2014
Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled today 1990
22 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
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On 22 June 1990, 'Checkpoint Charlie', the famous crossing between East-West Berlin, was dismantled. #OTD http://t.co/XGLZiilBxr—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) June 22, 2015
Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall
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Today in 1987 President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. http://t.co/oCiigdHoWW—
ClassicPics (@History_Pics) June 12, 2015
The Berlin Wall had its uses?!
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
East German soldier leaping over barbed wire fencing into West Berlin in 1961.
26 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
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East German soldier Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire fencing into West Berlin on 15 August 1961. http://t.co/tJlpG37X5e—
Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) January 21, 2015
The Berlin Wall: 1989 and now
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After the Berlin wall fell, the local German club in Canberra purchased a piece of the Berlin wall and mounted it o the wall over its entrance. There are markets and everything, including historical icons of liberty.
Within hours of the fall of the Berlin wall, a buddy German entrepreneur or two noticed that a lot of people will want to buy a piece of the Berlin wall, including expatriate Germans. One way these entrepreneurs would have noticed would have been local Berliners sticking pieces of the wall in the boots of their cars to take home as souvenirs.
There were 184 kilometres (114 miles) of concrete, or 45,000 individual segments, and its commercial value was recognised early.
Showing a notable nascent capitalist instinct, ministers of the provisional GDR government passed a resolution to take commercial advantage of the Berlin Wall on December 29, 1989, before official demolition even began.
An East German foreign trade company, Limex-Bau, received the job of marketing the individual segments, which it apparently did with some success. Three-hundred-sixty segments were taken for their artistic value and sold all over the world for prices as high as 40,000 marks.
There are segments in Las Vegas casinos, South Korean parks and on Caribbean islands. The city of Berlin has also kept a few dozen segments to give away as ceremonial state gifts.
HT: spiegel.de
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