Two days ago, November 10th, 2009 was the 20th Anniversary of the Collapse and Fall of the Berlin Wall.
____________________________________________________ Twenty years ago, on the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, East German authorities suddenly opened their border to West Germany. After 28 years as prisoners of their own country, euphoric East Germans streamed to checkpoints and rushed past bewildered guards, many falling tearfully into the arms of West Germans welcoming them on the other side. Thousands of Germans and world leaders gathered in Berlin yesterday to celebrate the "Mauerfall" - the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and German reunification - and to remember the approximately 100-200 who died attempting to cross the border over the years, from the fall of the Berlin Wall. _______________ I am utterly surprised no one has posted about this event yet. Credit to [url=http://boston.com]For the info. _______________
Usually when it's the 20th anniversary of something pretty important and amazing that a US president did, there is a quick speech about it. Obama did no such thing so people might find that a little insulting to the memory of Ronald Reagan.
A few months ago i went to the Duxford imperial war museum and a part of the Berlin wall was there, it was so strange to be touching it... It felt eerie, touching something that kept friends and family apart for years
Stalin actually wanted a neutral reunified Germany.
Not surprising really. It would have benefitted both NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations if there was a neutral buffer zone between them. That said, I'm sure many Russians were overjoyed to be occupying their former enemies.
