Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Berlin's fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue, about 1,000 leftists marched through the streets shouting slogans against German reunification...
More than 3 million East Germans headed West over the weekend, while several hundred thousand people made their way to Berlin from other countries to join a 4-day-old celebration...
...wall will never be what it used to be. It remains a memorial to inhumanity," West German President Richard von Weizsaecker said in a speech in West Berlin's Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtnis Church...
Today, on the heels of change in governments across the world, an old, haunting question poses itself anew to our generation, beckoning for an answer as never before. As hundreds of thousands of Berliners and their compatriots worldwide celebrate the political erasure of the Berlin Wall, Americans find again in the history of Europe our own future in liberal democracy and economics...
...Wall could crumble into irrelevance so quickly runs counter to the "world views" instilled in those growing up in the age of Nixon, Brezhnev and Reagan. Indeed, the cultural landmarks used to define a "post-war world order" were planted before most of us were even born: Prague 1968; Berlin 1961; Hungary 1956. Even in Asia, Mao's Cultural Revolution and America's involvement in Vietnam began and reached their peak in the mid- to late 1960s...