A FREE EUROPE: DAY OF REMEMBERANCE FOR THE VICTIMS OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES »
EU First Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Jourová: “Every 23 August, we honour the memory of the millions of victims of all totalitarian regimes. This year we also mark the 30 years of events in 1989 when citizens of Central and Eastern Europe stood up and broke through the Iron Curtain and accelerated its fall. The courageous actions of citizens brought back freedom and democracy to all of Europe.
ABIIGAIL’S TRAVELS: REMEMBER THE BERLIN WALL? »
No matter where you turn in Berlin, the wall’s omnipresent graffitied remains suggest that no physical barrier is greater than the human will to overcome obstacles, no matter how tall and stark. Germany may have a few things to teach the United States.
EDITOR’S BLOG: Puerta de Alcala is Transformed into Brandenburg Gate in Commemoration of the Fall of the Wall 25 Years Ago »
“The Fall of the Wall wasn’t so much the ushering in of a reunified Germany as the end of the Cold War that divided the world into two fiercely antagonistic blocs”
