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Berlin Wall: Balloons replace barbed wire as illuminated installation marks route ...


Berlin’s new wall has taken far longer to erect than the one it commemorates. The original, infamous wall, a barbed-wire line in the road at first, then a fence, and finally a guarded and fortified concrete partition, appeared almost overnight in August 1961; then, in a confused series of events 25 years ago today that are still misunderstood, turned suddenly porous and, amid quite extraordinary scenes, was torn down.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 49111.html

9-10 novembre 1989 : ils ont fait tomber le mur !
Vingt-cinq ans après la chute du mur, Le Figaro Magazine a retrouvé des acteurs et témoins de cette nuit historique qui a précipité la chute du système soviétique.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/histoire/2014/11 ... le-mur.php

http://www.lefigaro.fr/histoire/2014/11 ... -dates.php

Gorbachev warns of new cold war threat as Berlin marks fall of wall

As Berliners watch 8,000 balloons being released into the night sky this evening, old divisions between east and west will symbolically vanish into thin air with them. Yet the runup to the festivities has already served up plenty of reminders that, 25 years after the fall of the wall that divided the city for three decades, the scars of history are hurting more than ever.

Speaking at a symposium near the Brandenburg Gate yesterday morning, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the world was “on the brink of a new cold war” and strongly criticised the west for having sown the seeds of the current crisis by mishandling the fallout from the collapse of the iron curtain.

“Instead of building new mechanisms and institutions of European security and pursuing a major demilitarisation of European politics … the west, and particularly the United States, declared victory in the cold war,” said the man behind the Soviet Union’s glasnost and perestroika reforms.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/n ... nniversary

Gorbachev: Worsening in Russian-German Relations Will Bring No Security to

http://en.ria.ru/world/20141108/1953237 ... ng-No.html


Mikhail Gorbachev warns the world is on the brink of a new Cold War
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... d-War.html

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that tensions between the major powers have put the world “on the brink of a new Cold War”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 48946.html

Gorbatschow: Westen brach Zusagen von 1989

Der Ex-Sowjet-Führer kritisiert den Westen bei den Feiern zum 25. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls in Berlin scharf: "Die Welt ist an der Schwelle zu einem neuen Kalten
http://diepresse.com/home/zeitgeschicht ... e/index.do


Gorbatschow warnt vor "neuem Kalten Krieg"

http://kurier.at/politik/ausland/gorbat ... 95.837.609

Gorbatchev craint une nouvelle Guerre froide

À l'occasion des 25 ans de la chute du Mur de Berlin, l'ancien leader soviétique s'inquiète de la montée des tensions dans le monde.

http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/m ... 858743001/

Kissinger warnt vor "Neuauflage des Kalten Krieges"

http://diepresse.com/home/politik/ausse ... e/index.do

Germany marks 25 years since fall of Berlin Wall


BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel led celebrations Sunday marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, calling it an example of the human yearning for freedom and honoring those who helped bring down the barrier that for 28 years symbolized the Cold War.
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, thousands of East Berliners streamed through the once-closed border crossings after communist authorities caved in to mounting pressure and relaxed travel restrictions that had prevented their citizens from going to the west for decades.
"The fall of the Wall has shown us that dreams can come true," Merkel said at the main memorial site for the Wall on Bernauer Strasse. "Nothing has to stay the way it is, however big the hurdles are."


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/art ... -Wall.html

Germany marks 25th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/eu ... -1.1993983

As Germany marks fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev warns of new cold war
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/n ... nniversary

Remembrance Sunday: Nation falls silent as Queen leads commemorations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29974771


The Queen led the nation in honouring members of the armed forces killed in conflict as Remembrance Sunday services took place around the country today.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mai ... -1-6942118