This post about the fall of the Berlin wall and how this event cause the world change their ideology after the wall of Berlin fall.
Berlin Wall is a historic monument that reminds citizens of the world to separate the ideology of Communism and capitalism "physical" which was also to divide Europe after World War 2.
The defeat of Hitler led Germany to the disunity of the country was divided into East (East Germany) and the West. Meanwhile, the city of Berlin is located in the newly formed East Germany was also split to be divided between America, Britain, France and the Soviet Union in accordance with administrative zones separately.
Like Germany, Berlin is divided into East and West Berlin.
So have built over 28 stone wall was in 1961 during the reign of Walter Ulbricht, leader of the German Democratic Republic of (GDR), which became a symbol of (physical) that separates Communism and capitalism.
The wall also prevented the movement of refugees from East to West, estimated at a total of 2.5 million people since 1949.
Even if blocked, pressure then forced the residents living east to try to bet lives on beyond the wall. According to records, between the years 1962 to 1989, about 5,000 persons crossed, but not less than 100 lives have been floated.
A year before The Fall Of The Berlin wall in 1989, the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the availability of a powerful nation to reduce its military power in the territory of Eastern Europe - with a reduction of half a million troops and 10,000 tanks.
Meanwhile, a year earlier, U.S. President, Ronald Reegan in an impassioned speech at the Brandenberg gate was also called 'enemies' of Russia to "tear down this wall".
Large-scale street demonstrations have taken place in East Germany, where the peak led to the resignation and the resignation of Erich Honeker. Then weak state accelerated the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
On 9 November, the leader of GDR, Egon Krentz has opened the main gates at the border. What was seen previously as a barrier that prevents people have turned to the site to party, especially when the families that had been separated had invaded the wall that was collapsing.
For two days, the estimated more than 1 million people, mostly citizens of East Berlin to take advantage of new freedoms to visit areas in the West.
July next year, a former member of the group Pink Floyd, Roger Waters has a show near Potsdamer Platz and the event called "The Wall".
Taking inspiration for the event, invited guests that time, the German Rock band, the Scorpions have produced a song / song entitled "Wind Of Change".
The activities of a busy souvenir hunters quickly clean up the remnants of the ruined walls involved. Today, only three short of the wall is still preserved and maintained as a symbol to remind the Germans of Berlin's history when the first breakdown.
On October 3, 1990, Berlin has once again chosen as the capital of Germany.
Indeed, the merger of East and West Germany, with different levels of economic development and wealth gap has brought significant challenges to the new government of Republic of Germany and the balance of this development seems to continue running.
