Today, the ninth of November marks the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall finally coming down. I'm too young to remember it, I was all of four years old at the time. I cannot imagine a Europe that ended at the border between East and West Germany. Yet for so many it was a fact of life, a fact that they never expected to change, until it did. It was a mostly peaceful revolution that set Germany on the path to unification and on a path back to Europe as a united nation. There are too many walls left in the world that need to come down, and one day I hope we will get there.


News coverage on the peaceful demonstrations in Leipzig and East Berlin. What started with a few hundred people, became more then one hundred fifty thousand halfway October 1989. It was calculated that at the high point of the demonstrations one of every three adult persons in East Germany was marching in the demonstrations.

Tagesschau (news program) from the 10th of November 1989.

The Opening of the Wall at Berlin Bornholmer Strasse & Opening of the wall at the Reichstag (& Brandenburg Gate) 1989. (both with english subtitles)

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hey, I think Australians and more specifically NSW people are uh, very underrepresented on my flist, but I'm worried. All the news about the storms is scary.

I have family and friends in NSW and more specifically the Wollongong area.

*worries*

If you're in the areas affected, I hope you are well and safe.

halloooooo?

Iemand hier geinteresseerd in een stapen nederlandstalige marvel strips?

inclusief: X-Men, Spiderman en een stapel niet-marvel strips.

It's Remembrance day. Dodenherdenking.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Anne Frank.