Thousands cheer 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall
November 9, 2009
By MELISSA EDDY and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER (AP) – 3 hours agoBERLIN — Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier’s shadow.
“It was like a prison,” said Sauff, 73, who lived on the Western side of the wall. “For us ‘Wessis,’ the few kilometers from our old home to our new home (in the East) was unthinkable.”
The Sauffs were among those who gathered Monday to celebrate 20 years of unity, marking the day the wall came down. Thousands cheered as 1,000 colorfully decorated dominoes along a mile-long route were toppled to symbolize both the moment the wall came crashing down and the resulting fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe.
AP-Thousands cheer 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall
The start of good things happening in the world. The collapse of Communism, an evil system. Communism collapsed in relative peace in East Germany and later Poland. Communism ends violently in conflict like Soviet Union, Cambodia, and Romania. There is rarely ever a peaceful transition, like in Pinochet’s Chile and Park’s South Korea. Yes, Park was assassinated, but South Korea did not descend into chaos and bloodshed.
