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Leaders to fete fall of Berlin Wall at giant bash

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

World leaders past and present on Monday gathered for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with 100,000 people expected at celebrations to toast a free and united Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ...

Wall anniversary celebrations kick off in Berlin

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

Berlin warmed up for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall with events throughout the city, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a new transatlantic push to free those still oppressed. "Our history did not end the night the ...

Timeline of events leading to communism's collapse

AP News 15 days ago

A chronology of the events in the collapse of communism in Europe Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989: _ June 4: Poland holds first partially free elections in four decades; Solidarity-led opposition wins all but one ...

An east German stockbroker wrestles with his fate

AFP Global Edition 15 days ago

Born in communist East Germany well before the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, Thomas Nagel is not your typical German stockbroker. "No one in my family had ever worked in a bank," he told AFP. "It was an essentially ...

East of the Iron Curtain, humour helped society cope

AFP Global Edition 19 days ago

Out of the bleakest moments east of the Iron Curtain was born an improbable, subversive humour, feeding a stream of popular jokes despite censure, repression and poverty. Dreams of abundance in the West were at the heart of the absurd vignettes, known ...

Capitalism, democracy losing favor in ex-Soviet bloc: poll

AFP Global Edition 20 days ago

Capitalism and democracy have lost popularity in the former Soviet republics of Eastern and Central Europe, where many people felt better off economically under communism, a poll showed Monday. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, research by the Pew ...

Poll: generation gap in Eastern Europe on politics

AP News 20 days ago

Poll reveals generation gap on democracy, capitalism in ex-communist European countries Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a sharp generational schism has formed in how people in Europe's former communist countries view the shift to democracy and capitalism, a ...

Castro sister recounts role as CIA spy in Cuba

Reuters US Online Report Top News 27 days ago

MIAMI (Reuters) - Using the code name Donna, the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s, helping opponents of their communist rule escape execution and imprisonment, she said in memoirs published ...

Key dates in collapse of communism across Europe

AP News 36 days ago

A timeline of key dates in the 1989-90 collapse of communism across Eastern Europe For four decades, the communist regimes of Eastern Europe seemed unshakeable. Yet when the end came, it unfolded with stunning speed: 1989: June 4 - Communists overwhelmingly defeated ...

Czech Republic Iron Curtain Fall

AP News 38 days ago

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel is seen during a press conference as the Czech Republic commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall communism and the Iron Curtain in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) Copyright 2009 AP ...

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