9 November 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 November 1989 marks the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1989 a series of revolutions in Poland and Hungary caused a chain reaction in Eastern Germany that finally resulted in the fall of the Berlin Wall. Afer several weeks of civil unrest the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all people from East Germany could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans climbed and crossed the hated wall, joined by West Germans. The next weeks people and souvenir hunters took away parts of the wall. Officially the demolition of the Wall started on 13 June 1990. Berlin Wall own picture *** My god help Me to survive this Deadly Love. This shows Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing. This work is called the kiss of Death and it is one of the most well known paintings of the remaining Berlin Wall. The Kiss shows Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Leader and Erich Honecker, the President of East Germany. ...