Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Postby Webb » Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:56 pm

The date on which the Wall fell is considered to have been 9 November 1989, but the Wall in its entirety was not torn down immediately. Starting that evening and in the days and weeks that followed, people came to the wall with various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. These people were nicknamed "Mauerspechte" (wall woodpeckers).
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Re: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Postby Webb » Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:59 pm

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Re: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 09, 2014 3:46 am

...and 25 years later, Mr Gorbachev warns, yet again, on the same subject...>>>

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/mi ... _wall_fall

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Re: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Postby expat » Sun Nov 09, 2014 7:28 am

And 25 years later I am still paying solidarity tax......................After being told by the politicians of the day we would only pay for a year.............!
I regularly work in the deepest East, I really have to wonder what the money is still being spent on...

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Re: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Postby jcj78 » Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:53 am

And 25 years later some people pretend that the reason the wall fell is because Ronald Reagan said it should.........

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