It is a theme park devoted to the lost socialist Atlantis complete with sub-machine gun toting guards and a rebuilt stretch of the Berlin Wall. |
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I grew up with a clear picture of the Iron Curtain too, since it was spoken of as though it were as coherent an artifact as the Berlin Wall. |
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The Berlin Wall had come down, the Sandinistas had lost power in Nicaragua. |
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By the end of the 1980s the Berlin Wall was down and the velvet revolutions in eastern Europe were under way. |
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The Soviet Union had imploded, the Berlin Wall had come tumbling down, and Africans were not indifferent to these winds of change. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was the most dramatic event of the political revolution. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall didn't claim any victims, but it did profoundly change the geopolitical scene. |
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When delirious crowds tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989 many hallucinated that a millennium of borderless freedom was at hand. |
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, a new leadership hastily jettisoned the Party's name, and soon began to repudiate most of its past. |
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Fifteen years ago this Tuesday a political earthquake brought down the Berlin Wall. |
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It took a peace dividend after the Berlin Wall came down, along with most other countries, including the US and Australia. |
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The decor is elegant, mixed with pieces of art symbolizing the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
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On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and the borders which had divided East and West Germany were breached. |
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It was only under Gorbachev and his perestroika, as the Berlin Wall began to crumble, that the official line crumbled as well. |
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The Berlin Wall has fallen, people are more self-interested, the level of interest in politics has waned, sovereignty has been sloughed off, family structures have crumbled. |
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In 1989, courageous people brought to naught the Berlin Wall. |
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When the Berlin Wall fell, he did not crow but allowed democracy to take root on its own merits in the former Soviet republics. |
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Thirdly, the collapse of the Berlin Wall rubbished the ideology of socialism and socialist policies around the world. |
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I used to taunt well-travelled friends who had never visited the Berlin Wall by saying that no one could claim to be a citizen of the world who had not seen it. |
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What prompted you to pick the fall of the Berlin Wall as the backdrop for your thriller? |
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Along with the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is one of my all-time great experiences as a journalist. |
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The Berlin Wall had fallen, Soviet troops limped out of Afghanistan, and the Soviet economy was in tatters. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was of course no accident, either as fact or metaphor. |
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The Berlin Wall, toppled 20 years ago today, was brought down by Ronald Reagan's hawkish stand, right? |
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The Berlin Wall Focused by Photographers, an exhibition of photojournalists' first images of East Berlin after the wall. |
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall a decade ago, rightist violence has become a fact of German life. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall has become a symbol for the rapid and complex changes we have all watched, breathlessly, over the past few years. |
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It led to a stream of people heading west and climaxed in the fall of the Berlin Wall in November that year. |
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The question of where to situate those limits has returned in force since the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
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He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe. |
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When the Berlin Wall was dismantled 20 years ago, it did more than free the captive nations of the Warsaw Pact. |
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, validating the doctrines of peace through strength and cautious engagement. |
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This initiative took root in an international context influenced by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Cold War tensions. |
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In the Berlin Wall, the mutual misunderstanding of two competing systems was materialized for all to see. |
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, many of the certainties and assumptions of the last forty years have become irrelevant. |
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What appears likely is that the global imbalances that have built up since the fall of the Berlin Wall will have to correct. |
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal democracy has become an even more prevalent form of government. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was the culmination of one stage of a process within civil society, just as the recent resistance in Guatemala was a result of years of struggle and dissent. |
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The meeting was called to discuss Cold War tensions arising from construction of the Berlin Wall. |
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Germany was reunited, after the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the maps of Central and Eastern Europe were redrawn once more. |
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In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and Communist governments outside the Soviet Union were deposed. |
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It's not that there's anything inherently sidesplitting about disaffected young expats who wander around Eastern Europe right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which is what Phillips's five main characters happen to be. |
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At the same period, Barbara also painted a series of canvases entitled In Homage to the Berlin Wall in which the strident colours and overtones of the symbols used chime in with the protestations of the Berlin muralists. |
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This Iron Curtain opening is often described as the first crack in the Berlin Wall which was to fall a few months later, on 9 November 1989, and one of the key episodes leading to the collapse of communism in central Europe. |
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, centrists and refashioned ex-communists filled the gap that opened up on the left, while Mr Berlusconi's movement jumped into the vacuum on the right. |
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Having done so much since the fall of the Berlin Wall to reunify and renew the continent, the EU must not allow Schengen arrangements to impose by default a new Iron Curtain. |
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world in which UNESCO is endeavouring to make its voice heard is much less homogeneous and hence much less governable than before. |
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In 1988, the Berlin Wall was still standing, and Mr Vaclav Havel was still a political prisoner in the country of which he was to become President. |
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Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil. |
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Given how costly and difficult reunification has proved to be for the Germanys after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we should be only too happy to throw this particular time bomb into China's lap. |
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The French wanted to fetter German power in particular the dominance of the German central bank in European monetary policy after its second unification, in 1990, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
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Social disasters, Mr Wurtz, have been features of a collectivist system, and the collectivist system sustained the Berlin Wall, millions of people have suffered physically from a loss of liberty. |
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The greatest obstacle on the Korean peninsular, however, is that the war entrenched positions and the wall between the two Korean states is much higher and more impenetrable that the Berlin Wall ever was. |
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This is the current state of things that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet empire, the entire world cannot help but see. |
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Under government pressure, his employer at a state-owned newspaper was forced to fire him in June 2009 after he blogged about the inhumanity of the Berlin Wall. |
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Each examines different aspects of the legacy of Naziism, such as the Berlin Wall and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. |
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Meanwhile, the internet is atwitter with hints that neo-Nazis plan to gather in front of Berlin's Reichstag on November 9th, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
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Since the Berlin Wall fell and unfroze the Communist clamp on the multiple ethnicities and tangled histories of each country in Eastern Europe, history has been reborn. |
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After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the CENYC had to completely and quickly reorganise to accommodate the many youth organisations from the East that would apply for admission. |
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Eighty-nine young people born in November 1989, the month in which the Berlin Wall fell, have also been invited to Brussels to mark the anniversary of a new Europe. |
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Also, after the Berlin Wall fell, a renewed sense of possibility gripped the Eastern Orthodox Church in general. |
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It adapted itself to a changed environment after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of bipolarity and thus successfully filled the security vacuum created in Central and Eastern Europe. |
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The ambassadress of Slovakia at the Council of Europe stressed that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 had many consequences on the social, economic life and policy of the countries and the European people. |
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In his 1987 film Wings of Desire director Wim Wenders lets the old storyteller Homer, played by Curt Bois, walk beside the Berlin Wall in search of Potsdamer Platz. |
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This year, celebrate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by joining in the concerts and the street party in Berlin on 9 November, the date the wall came down 20 years ago. |
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Internationally, he covered stories that shaped the 20th century, including momentous events such as the Yom Kippur War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War. |
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Even today many people do not know about the regimes that terrorised their fellow citizens in Central and Eastern Europe for 40 years and divided them from democratic Europe with the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. |
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For almost thirty years, the Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany, a tangible symbol of the Iron Curtain between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. |
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A variant of this dynamic can be seen in Russia and many parts of eastern Europe and central Asia, where the fall of the Berlin Wall did not usher in democracy, economic liberalisation, and rapid output growth. |
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The Love Parade added a jolt of Dionysian exuberance. The event started months before the Berlin Wall fell as a venture into daylight by a youth subculture hatched in Berlin clubs. |
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The Berlin Wall was simply being circumvented. |
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The closing of the borders between Russia and Poland and Lithuania is just as unnatural for the people of these countries as the Berlin Wall was for Berliners. |
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We focus on your stories, the channel for you, when nursing-care fails, the main road is life threatening or the books in your child's school are from before the fall of the Berlin Wall? |
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The Berlin Wall falls, the country reunifies and world events again weigh heavily on local lives. |
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No one ever tried to climb the Berlin Wall to escape into East Berlin. |
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The groundswell of personal freedoms that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 took stultified socialist societies by surprise. |
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Just 10 minutes' walk away, the museum tells the story of the Berlin Wall and the many Cold War escape attempts made by East Berliners. |
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Mexico border was about 10 times deadlier to immigrants than the Berlin Wall was to East Berliners in its entire 28-year existence. |
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In 1961, the German Democratic Republic erected the Berlin Wall to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to freedom into West Berlin. |
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist European countries were able to accede to the Council of Europe, which now comprises 47 states in Europe. |
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The Berlin Wall, rapidly built on 13 August 1961 prevented East German citizens from escaping to West Germany, eventually becoming a symbol of the Cold War. |
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In February 1990, months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the draw for the 1992 European Championship qualifying tournament saw East Germany and West Germany drawn together. |
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To stop citizens in East Berlin from having too much exposure to the capitalist West, the Soviet Union put up the Berlin Wall within the actual city. |
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A deltiologist website reveals that collectors are interested in subjects as diverse as postcards of the Berlin Wall, frogs, books and even corkscrews. |
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For an oppressed people this final act in the fading daylight, the wrenching down of this ghastly symbol of the regime, is their Berlin Wall moment. |
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In the two decades and more since the fall of the Berlin Wall the former centrally planned economies have taken somewhat different paths to becoming free market economies. |
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In Bulgaria, the day after the mass crossings through the Berlin Wall, the leader Todor Zhivkov was ousted by his Politburo and replaced with Petar Mladenov. |
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Rather than eroding barriers between communities, a Berlin wall of suspicion, mistrust and hatred has been erected. |
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Inside the scrapbook was the front page of the Daily News from the day the Berlin wall fell. |
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The 21st-century equivalent of the Berlin wall is a cyberbarrier, and we can help puncture it. |
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