It’s hard to believe it has been 20 years ago since we sat awestruck as the Berlin Wall ... Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” Peter Robinson, who crafted the core ...

Credit for bringing down the Berlin Wall has been passed around plenty: to Poland's Solidarity movement, Ronald Reagan and his 1987 "Tear Down This Wall" speech, Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost ...

And just 2½ years after Reagan spoke them, that wall came down. We speak now of the “fall” of the Berlin Wall, but in truth the wall did not just fall. It was pushed. It was the policies of ...

When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

Just a month after the massive demonstration, the wall between East and West Berlin came down. The church had sent a powerful message to the world: the East German government no longer controlled ...

History Didn’t Bring Down the Berlin Wall—Activists Did Mass uprisings like the one that brought down the Soviet bloc are neither as rare—nor as spontaneous—as they first appear.

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 ... Wall came down in November ...

On November 9, 1989, the East German underground guitar band Die Anderen—the Others—had a gig on the other side of the Berlin Wall ... worry and the state bore down hard: Punks experienced ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and ... a massive democratic movement that ended up bringing down the the socialist German Democratic Republic ...

a German journalist called Peter Brinkmann is telling me how he helped bring down the Berlin Wall. It’s a story I’ve heard before, but never from the horse’s mouth, and it’s thrilling to ...