Queda do Muro de Berlim – 20 anos (V)
9 Novembro, 2009 at 12:50 pm Deixe um comentário


Freedom!
For 28 years it had stood as the symbol of the division of Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life — the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then — poof! — it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more than a generation. It was one of those rare times when the tectonic plates of history shift beneath men’s feet, and nothing after is quite the same.
(Time – edição datada de 20.11.1989 – publicada a 14.11.1989)
Entry filed under: Internacional, Sociedade. Tags: Berlim.




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