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The Fall of the Wall: 20 Years On
We know what happened in the years following the momentous events of 9 November 1989: the birth of a new Europe. But that week, fear mingled with hope – and The Independent's correspondents and photographers were there to capture the moment. In a special report, we present the first draft of history
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Monday, 9 November 2009
Gordon Brown will make a last-ditch appeal today to Angela Merkel to rally behind Tony Blair as the first president of Europe.
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Monday, 9 November 2009
1989: Europe's Revolution: On the 20th anniversary of Berlin's reunification, Tony Paterson remembers the place where the city's dividing lines began to dissolve
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Sunday, 8 November 2009
Twenty years ago, Berliners took a hammer to history. David Randall and Tony Paterson give an hour-by-hour report on the end of the Cold War.
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Sunday, 8 November 2009
As history is celebrated on the streets of Berlin today, behind the scenes, another, though more discreet, chapter in European history may also be penned in that same city.
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Sunday, 8 November 2009
Reunification has led to fewer jobs and fewer people in the east, and some are nostalgic for a more certain past
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Sunday, 8 November 2009
The defeat of Nazi Germany was the Soviet Union's only service to humanity, writes Rupert Cornwell. Communism had to die, as it was alien to our nature.
IoS graphic: Fall of the wall
Sunday, 8 November 2009
John Reid: The enduring implications of the fall of the Berlin Wall
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, was one of history’s truly epochal moments. During what became a revolutionary wave sweeping across the former Eastern Bloc countries, the announcement by the then-East German Government that its citizens could visit West Germany set in train a series of events that led, ultimately, to the demise of the Soviet Union itself.
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