The 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. The actual anniversary is on sunday, but celebrations are already under way with thousands pouring onto the streets of the german capital. Berlin is gearing up for anniversary celebrations. Over eight thousand balloons have been placed in areas where the wall once stood. They will be in the minute it over the weekend they will be in human aided they will be illuminated over the weekend. The Speaker Parliament was modest in his commemoration of this historic event. It often seems to us as if germany changed the world at the time, but a huge upheaval was under way in 1989 in many places , with parallel events that cause, promoted, or influenced each other. Without the peaceful protests berlin but across eastern in europe, the wall may never have been breached, and german reunification may never have happened. This veteran musician was also in parliament today. He was expelled from former communist east germany in 1976 for writing antig
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