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On this date in 1989, the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:01 am
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:04 am to PSS101
Was quite a big deal for sure.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:04 am to PSS101
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:06 am to Saint Alfonzo
God Bless David Hasselhoff!
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:06 am to PSS101
I cried like a baby. I had spent time in Berlin living near the Brandenburg gate and the wall. I got to know locals and remembers some who were my age and who had not seen family on the other side of the wall since it went up. Jennie was so worried for her Mother and Sister and she'd be able to walk to visit them just as she had. It was a cruel thing to do because the little people didn't matter.
Guards on both sides of the wall were whistling Kaiser Bill's Batman tune that year.
Guards on both sides of the wall were whistling Kaiser Bill's Batman tune that year.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:18 am to real turf fan
Berlin is such a historical city. I'd love to visit.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:20 am to PSS101
I remember watching it on TV.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:26 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:28 am to Jim Rockford
Crazy that a single city could be split like.that with such different political philosophies that would a wall had to put up to make sure people couldn't get different ideas.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:29 am to PSS101
I was in school in England at the time and people went nuts celebrating, it was quite bloody fun. I was traveling in Europe the summer before and had to sleep on the floor of trains sometimes as they were packed with Polish people fleeing after their government collapsed.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:29 am to Jim Rockford
A lot of people thought it was the end of war, or at least the end of great power conflicts. 36 years later here we are.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:39 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
I was ten years old and used to mess around with my old man’s shortwave radio. It was old (talking vacuum tubes here) but worked like a champ. I thought I was super spy listening to the enemy like Radio Moscow and other stations from the Warsaw Pact nations. I was listening to the BBC World Service when the news first came though that something was happening at the Berlin Wall. Interesting times in those last days of the Cold War, even for a kid.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:56 am to TSS4LSU
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wall had to put up to make sure people couldn't get different ideas
Getting different ideas wasnt why the wall went up. Russia built the wall to keep their citizens from escaping to the west.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 12:06 pm to TheFonz
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I was listening to the BBC World Service
My dad was dying of C but was amazed at the geopolitical whimper rather than the expected bang at the fall of the Wall.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:24 pm to PSS101
I was in West Berlin (Constantine’s there but for another military purpose), our beepers went nuts as we got called into a briefing. What was supposed to be a goodwill visit for a few east Berliner's turned into chaos.
We were sure at the time if it was a cover for an invasion by the Soviets. Pretty damn stressful moments as the shite got sorted out. I had a team of guys I was responsible for - barely 20 and being potentially responsible for an international incident. fricking crazy days.
We were sure at the time if it was a cover for an invasion by the Soviets. Pretty damn stressful moments as the shite got sorted out. I had a team of guys I was responsible for - barely 20 and being potentially responsible for an international incident. fricking crazy days.
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