…..I never understood the politics of any of it, all we knew was that people had died trying to get over the wall, and that East Berliners were not allowed into the west until that day. It was quite an scary sight when you walked along the wall to see the towers with armed gaurds [...]

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A great little 3 minute clip from the BBC visiting the Berlin wall.  As the 20th year anniversary gets nearer then lots more of these on their way I hope.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8339077.stm

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I was hoping for a bit more coverage of what was the start of amazing events 20 years ago in East and West Berlin, but then what is there to say?   The Wall coming down was not the start of it all but something that was bound to happen after events at other borders, but [...]

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BBC2 has a couple of interesting programs showing on Saturday night.  Starting at 21:00 with The Lost World of Communism followed later by the favorite DDR film Goodbye Lenin.
“A Socialist Paradise. 1989 marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people. [...]

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