Today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
difficult to understand what it represents today the huge strip of division between different conceptions of society. But some points of them we can understand that the period of the wall we have not experienced first hand, either because they are too small, either because we stood on the right side of the border: the Berlin Wall not only divided, symbolically represented the line of demarcation between those involved in the Cold War. One certain thing that transpires
reading the newspapers, Internet sites and various inserts is that the Wall was definitely the most unpopular choice that could take the Soviet regime. Are significant in the words of Viktor Suvorov, a Russian writer:
" The purpose of the wall: so that the people of the socialist Germany could escape the normal world. The wall was constantly improved and strengthened, transformed from an ordinary wall into a system insurmountable obstacles, traps, signals processed, bunkers, guard towers, tetrahedra and anti-tank firing automatic weapons that killed the fugitive without the need for action by the border guards.
But more work, ingenuity, money and the steel Community place for improve the wall, the clearer it became a concept humans can be maintained only in a communist society with impenetrable buildings, barbed wire, dogs and shooting them from behind. The wall meant that the system that the communists had built not attracted but repellent. "
The wall was then a final rejection of the regime and its authoritarian and dictatorial methods of ascertaining the population. How could you believe that erecting a wall to prevent the escape of the citizens was a good insight, this is really mysterious.
The fact remains that the regime did nothing to make himself loved by the people of East Germany: in addition to the Wall, the infamous and shameful acts put in place led by the STASI the East Berliners to stand up one day after another. Until 1989, November 9, where a news conference, when asked when they could cross the damn border marked by the Wall, spokesman for the DDR Schabowski let out a "ab sofort". Immediately. And so it went off the mouth between the Berliners, the faster the television and radio, faster phones. And within an hour the Wall was besieged and demolished piece by piece, with a hammer. The symbol of the system turns against the monster it created. A
Berlin was once again only a Berliner, without any distinction. Everyone could bring Kennedy's words indiscriminately: "Ich bin ein Berliner."
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