On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched. It marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Communist ...

The Communists dubbed the wall, which surrounded West Berlin with both a wall and a ... But worse, the Soviets were falling behind in other fields as the digital revolution took hold in the ...

Fifteen prominent communists in East Berlin wrote to the Central Committee suggesting the Wall be torn down. "It is also imaginable ... that the Wall will become a relic of the past.'' ...

East and West Berliners flocked to the wall and began tearing it down. The wall was soon destroyed and Berlin was unified for the first time since 1945. The destruction of the Berlin Wall is ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and was protected with barbed wire, attack dogs, and 55,000 landmines. But though the wall stood between 1961 ...

“Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Specifically, Reagan urged increased free air access to West Berlin and suggested the city be the site of United Nations ...

Reagan’s call to Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” resonates today as the Iranian regime faces its own moment of reckoning. Tehran’s wall, like the Berlin Wall before it ...

The role of gay people in bringing down communist East Germany from within ... capturing the imagination of generations born after the Berlin Wall tumbled on November 9th, 1989.

Over a quarter of a century later, Reagan famously implored the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to “tear down this wall.” In the speech he also remarked how well West Berlin had ...