In this gallery, click through and be reminded of how quickly the Berlin Wall went up, and the way it cut an entire city in ...

Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist dominoes began to tumble, the north side of Conduit Street was punctuated by outposts of eastern European tourist enterprises.

This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist dominoes began to tumble, the north side of Conduit Street was punctuated ...

Today, 9 November 2024 marks 35 years since the end of the Berlin Wall, which stood as the most prominent symbol of the Cold War… Despite Celtic’s extensive European experience, only once did ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Rome Newsroom, Nov 9, 2024 / 11:00 am As Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this year, key witnesses are highlighting the crucial role played by St. John Paul II in ...

The Berlin Wall came to symbolise the ‘Iron Curtain’ – an ideological split between the East and the West. But a simple question and slip up by East German Communist Party official Günter ...

It was a physical reminder of the Iron Curtain, a metaphor used to describe the competing idealogies and politics between the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the West during the Cold War ...

As Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this year, key witnesses are highlighting the crucial role played by St. John Paul II in bringing about the peaceful revolution ...

The Night The Iron Curtain Closed provides a chilling account of how, overnight, a new country was born, an old country was cut in half and how the Berlin Wall heralded the birth of the Cold War.

That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989 — 35 years ago Saturday. The infamous Iron Curtain was lifting. Democracy, at long last, was spreading to Eastern Europe.