Tear down that wall!
Berlin was a divided city from 1961 until 1989. The construction of The Berlin Wall broke the city into two parts and made it a battlefield for political confrontation between the superpowers of the USA and western Europe against the Soviet Bloc. The Iron Curtain smashed through Berlin separating friends and families.
It was at Checkpoint Charlie that Russian and American tanks squared up to each other. Several museums vividly describe what life was like and how people survived living under such pressure.
It is difficult to believe that only a generation ago Potsdamer Platz, Brendenburg Gate and many other areas were littered with barbed wire, electric fences, watch towers, land mines and tank traps.
Despite all of the risks and dangers many people tried to cross from East to West Berlin. A few made it, some were captured and many were killed.
People power eventually brought down the wall and also Communism without a shot being fired. The human spirit is more powerful than any weapon.
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