3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to ...

April 29 stands as a remarkable date in history, marking moments of profound change and cultural milestones that have ...

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For 28 years from, 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was the epitome - the defining image - of the cold war. I was in Berlin in December 1989, staying with friends and taking a cold chisel to part of ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

At an art installation by Yadegar Asisi to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, visitors tell stories about life behind the wall.

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...