‘And the Wall Came Tumbling Down’

“WHO would have believed it?” “I never thought I would see it in my lifetime!” What provoked these comments? The destruction of the infamous Berlin Wall and all that it represented, starting in November 1989.a East Berliners poured into West Berlin, some to taste the expensive delights of capitalism and others to reunite as families.

That breach in the dike opened up the floodgates. Many felt that Eastern Europe would never be the same again.