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 ...

But the most striking difference was a long wall now dividing one part of Berlin from the other. Why did it happen? Because West Berlin was a “headache” for the Soviet Union and the East ...

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 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.

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 views expressed are his own. The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the eventual disintegration of the Soviet Union, were overwhelmingly positive events – a near miracle, in fact, given the ...

intended to raise false hopes in the West or to strengthen the Soviet Union without changing it?” At that point Reagan issued his challenge to Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. It was a ...