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THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 1988-1989
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THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 1988-1989
Investigating the history of Germany, I should admit that the period from 1988 till 1989 was a turning-point. On the 9th of November, 1989 the Berlin Wall, which separated East Germany and West Germany, fell. So, these two parts of the country combined again. There were a lot of people who were waiting for such an event. Because one the most dangerous period of German History had already finished. It lasted for almost eight years old. It started on the 13th of August 1961 when the Berlin Wall began to build. It separated Eastern part and Western part of Germany. The official purpose of that Wall was to save the socialist state in the East Germany.
In order to examine thoroughly these historic events we had to start from the period of the Cold War after the World War II country winners decided to prevent fascism. That is why they divided Germany into two parts. East Germany or the German Democratic Republic (GDR) belonged to the Soviet Union, and West Germany or the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) went to the United States of America, the Great Britain and France.2 These two parts had not opportunity to fight against settled regime. FRG was afraid of getting such strong enemy as the USSR was. Avril Pittman considered that FRG in order to save GDR decided to take its neutral stand. However, there were crowds of people who left GDR through Berlin. It was a flood of refugees. Premier Khrushchev stopped such process with the help of a cheap concrete block wall, it was the Berlin Wall.2
Bob Mardling as a witness of those events noted that on the 13th of August 1961 it was Herr Kansdorf, the father of his partner, who informed him that Berlin was barricaded. Immediately he remembered a family one member of which decided to visit his ailing old mother
THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 1988-1989
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THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 1988-1989
Investigating the history of Germany, I should admit that the period from 1988 till 1989 was a turning-point. On the 9th of November, 1989 the Berlin Wall, which separated East Germany and West Germany, fell. So, these two parts of the country combined again. There were a lot of people who were waiting for such an event. Because one the most dangerous period of German History had already finished. It lasted for almost eight years old. It started on the 13th of August 1961 when the Berlin Wall began to build. It separated Eastern part and Western part of Germany. The official purpose of that Wall was to save the socialist state in the East Germany.
In order to examine thoroughly these historic events we had to start from the period of the Cold War after the World War II country winners decided to prevent fascism. That is why they divided Germany into two parts. East Germany or the German Democratic Republic (GDR) belonged to the Soviet Union, and West Germany or the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) went to the United States of America, the Great Britain and France.2 These two parts had not opportunity to fight against settled regime. FRG was afraid of getting such strong enemy as the USSR was. Avril Pittman considered that FRG in order to save GDR decided to take its neutral stand. However, there were crowds of people who left GDR through Berlin. It was a flood of refugees. Premier Khrushchev stopped such process with the help of a cheap concrete block wall, it was the Berlin Wall.2
Bob Mardling as a witness of those events noted that on the 13th of August 1961 it was Herr Kansdorf, the father of his partner, who informed him that Berlin was barricaded. Immediately he remembered a family one member of which decided to visit his ailing old mother
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