Berlin Song
Ludovico
einaudi berlin song
rubia lima
Ralph
Essers
This song
is maybe the best example to show that music is the universal language of all
emotions. This song tells a story. It is a story of melancholy, of hapiness, of
sadness ,,, it's all there and we can all understand the words. More clear than
Italian or English could do this: music is the true language of the heart. And
Einaudi is its poet.
Sunday, 09 November 2014
14:44:12
The Fall of The Berlin Wall
On the 9th of November
1989, the Berlin
Wall came down.
For over a quarter of a century the
wall had divided
the people of Berlin
the people of Germany
the people of Europe.
It was the point at which Democracy
and Communism collided.
The Berliner Mauer as it was
known in Germany
represented the most brutal symbolism of communist repression. It was a physical
barrier that stopped people from living out their lives in freedom.
The Second World War, came to an
end in May 1945 - the allies won, led by the USA
the Soviet Union and Britain
over Nazi Germany.
The decision of what to do with a
defeated Germany was a plan
to divide Germany
into a number of smaller states.
The Soviet Union was given control
of the eastern part of Germany.
The soviets had already been invaded in two world wars from the west and they
wanted to ensure their security by making Poland
and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic & Slovakia) into buffer states.
Berlin was divided into the French
sector, the Soviet sector, the British sector and the US Sector.
Gorbachev
the political conditions that would
bring the wall down were brought about by Mikhail Gorbachev leader of the Soviet Union who introduced two new ideas glasnost
freedom of information free speech free elections and perestroika economic
reform within communism.
When asked about the Berlin Wall,Gorbachev
said “The wall could disappear once the conditions that created the Wall
disappeared.”
By November a million people were
marching in the streets of East
Germany demanding that the borders were
opened.
On Thursday the 9th of
November 1989 East Germans were to be allowed to cross the border.
At the wall itself no one had given
the East German guards orders they stayed at their posts until people began to
gather at the walls crossing points.
At the Bornholmer Strasse Crossing
an elderly couple were allowed through the guard had heard on the radio that
visas and passports were being issued.
On the other side West Berliners
had carried hot drinks and flowers to the Wall.
By midnight the border guards had
received official orders to open the gates. A celebration began on top of the Berlin Wall.
Ende
The Berlin Wall
All Along
the Watchtower: "Expelled" Version
jevansturner
A Divided
Family
“The main
house was in the Soviet Zone while some of the fields were in the British Zone.
The border literally divided the property.
Aged seventeen,
my father hid a suitcase on a horse drawn cart and drove west across the border
on family property, leaving his parents behind.
In the
following forty years he was allowed to return only twice-for a maximum of
three hours each time –for their funerals.
Author Oliver August in Along the Wall and Watchtowers,remembers how
the partition of Germany
divided the farmland where his father grew up.”
Churchill's
"Iron Curtain" Speech
Russel
Tarr
An Iron
Curtain
Winston
Churchill Britain’s Prime Minister made a speech in Fulton Missouri USA
“From
Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended over the
continent.”
In time
this iron curtain would take the physical form in the shape of the Berlin Wall
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