Germany on Sunday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the country’s emergence as the major power at the heart of Europe.
A 15-km chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released into the air Sunday evening — around the time on November 9, 1989 when a garbled announcement by a communist official set off the chain of events that brought down the Cold War’s most potent symbol.
The opening of East Germany’s fortified frontier capped months of ferment across eastern and central …read more
Source: The Indian Express
