1 day ago by Monika Hanley

BRUSSELS — “If you had said in 1989 that there would be three independent Baltic states, they would have sent for men in white coats,” said Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash at a policy dialogue Thursday in Brussels. Twenty years have gone by since the fall of the Berlin Wall, to be commemorated o ...

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2 days ago by followthatmouse

Its 20 years since the Iron Curtain fell and you are probably fed up with the repeats of the wall falling on television. But twenty years after the fall of communism there are still parts of Europe which retain anti-gay laws, like the Baltic States. AFP has been doing a survey. Uncredited and untitl ...

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4 days ago by VotingFemale

The Obama Berlin Wall Celebration Snub; yet another dot to connect, Americans. Comrade Obama tells Germany he is just too too busy… and ignoring the fact he was not too busy to go to Denmark with Michelle and Oprah to address the Olympic Site Selection Committee a few weeks ago. Oh yeah, attending t ...

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5 days ago by rcaldwell

The scene: Budapest; May, 1989. I’m traveling through the Continent with my older, cooler cousin Leslie, eurorailing around in 2nd class compartments, drinking in the culture, sleeping in youth hostels and occasionally (and accidentally) train stations. It’s my first trip abroad, my first time away ...

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6 days ago by Adam Smith

This is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of those iconic events that those who witnessed it — on television, mostly — remember as significant. The Wall, the symbol of the Cold War, came down not because of Ronald Reagan, who by then was resting, dazed, in California, nor ...

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16 days ago by Ulrich

BERLIN – OCTOBER 21 A worker pulls out one of the approximately 1,000 giant, styrofoam’dominos’ that will be used to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and that are currently stored at a warhouse after a press conference there on October 21, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The dominos, which are decor ...

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17 days ago by ellicsod1978

Read this piece on Romania’s Bloody Revolution: 20 Years Later.

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18 days ago by stuart78969

Well today I am depressed. The film I am set to review could not have disappointed me more. 12:08 East of Bucharest had been a film I had been looking forward to watching all week. I had read excellent reviews of the film and was particularly excited when I discovered that it had won the C amera D’o ...

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32 days ago by Cumber Van Walters

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s destruction, France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company got all marionettey on Berlin’s ass. Justifying my doctoral thesis stating that Big = PR, the several day exhibition, in front of 1.5 million germans, featured two massive marionettes ...

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42 days ago by gestroud

At an open-air Mass for at least 40,000 faithful, Benedict issued a call for holiness as he wrapped up his three-day visit to this central European country two decades after the fall of communism. Go to original article Pope Wraps Up Czech Trip with Mass Near Prague

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