Current Affairs Fall of Berlin Wall amidst upheaval in all of Eastern Europe

09-11-2004 | Martin Mikule

15 years ago, on November 9th 1989 the infamous Berlin Wall fell, bringing down a barrier that had held East Germans behind the Iron Curtain and the most potent symbol of divided Europe. The fall of the Wall was not just the end of the communist regime in East Germany but anticipated the political changes in the whole of Eastern and Central Europe.

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