Rather, follow a ribbon of cobblestones running some 6km through the heart of Berlin ... Wall. Thanks, it must be said, more than to any other individual, to the last leader of the Soviet Union.

This map shows the divide between ... as thousands of people flooded across the Berlin Wall In the 1980s, protests began against the way the Soviet Union controlled lots of countries in Eastern ...

The BBC reports from the scene as the Berlin Wall goes up By the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced acute economic problems and major food shortages, and when a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power ...

That's how NPR's Linda Wertheimer began an All Things Considered broadcast alongside co-host Robert Siegel, 33 years ago this week — as the Berlin Wall began ... of the Soviet Union, which ...

The Berlin Wall ... on both sides of the wall titled “East and West – God’s Children.” September 3, 1971 - Talks between the US, Britain, France and the Soviet Union lead to the Four ...

The Soviet Union followed suit, and today the fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as a symbol of the end of the Cold War. Today, a double row of cobblestones marks the place where the wall once stood.

BERLIN (AP) — President Reagan stood before the concrete and barbed wire of the Berlin Wall today and issued a personal and dramatic challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: “If you seek ...

35 years ago the Berlin wall fell ... politics between the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the West during the Cold War. During the near three decades that the wall stood, at least ...