It is 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble. As part of a special series of reports on how Russia ...

The heavily guarded wall became a symbol of the Iron Curtain, with Checkpoint Charlie ... The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing ...

the Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that physically and ideologically divided the city from 1961 to 1989. In a wider context, the wall came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and politically by 168km (104 ...

The coming down of the Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, tolled for the end of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes that were averse to democracy. The era was heralded by the disintegration of USSR’s ...

where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of the Berlin Wall. The shy daughter of a Lutheran minister, Merkel slipped into politics as a divorced Protestant in a largely Catholic ...