Today
is a Remarkable day in the World History
. What is the Speciality of this day, We Have to go to 25 Years Back(in 1989) .
ie People in a Country Demolished the Symbol which they suffered the the
Suppressed Rule,
ie
Today the 25th Anniversary of
Fall of Berlin Wall
Why
This Wall Has Demoilshed ? Why This Wall Has Built…? , For Getting about that
information we have to go to 44years back from 1989 , This is the Aftermath of
Victory of Allied Powers in Second world war over Germany,
In
1945 the Allied Powers Defeated Germany in Second World War, Allied Powers
USSR, USA, Britain and France Splited the Defeated nation and established their
control on the defeated territories, according to Potsdam Conference Britain ,USA and France gave Freedom to their
German Territories but the Eastern Part of the Germany Remained Under USSR as
Separate socialist State .This Province Called as German Democratic Republic or East Germany,Other Pthree provinces
together called as Federal Republic Of
Germany or West Germany.
The
Capital city of Berlin entirely
Located in the Eastern Germany , But the West Berlin remained as neighbor city
which is a bone stuck in the Soviet Throat,
In
West Germany There is a Democratic rule but in East Germany there is a
socialist autocratic rule under the communist party as an” iron curtain”.
Many Summits, conferences and other
negotiations came for the flow of refugees to West Berlin from GDR and went without resolution, but
the flood of refugees continued.
In June 1961, some 19,000 people left the GDR
through Berlin. The following month, 30,000 fled. In the first 11 days of
August, 16,000 East Germans crossed the border into West Berlin, and on August
12 some 2,400 followed—the largest number of defectors ever to leave East
Germany in a single day.
Building The Berlin Wall
In August 12 , 1961 night the Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev gave Permission to GDR
Leaders to built a wall across the East Berlin
to stop the flood of refugees to west. In
just two weeks, the East German army, police force and volunteer construction
workers had completed a makeshift barbed wire and concrete block wall–the
Berlin Wall–that divided one side of the city from the other.
Before the wall was built, Berliners on both
sides of the city could move around fairly freely: They crossed the East-West
border to work, to shop, to go to the theater and the movies. Trains and subway
lines carried passengers back and forth. After the wall was built, it became
impossible to get from East to West Berlin except through one of three
checkpoints: at Helmstedt (“Checkpoint
Alpha” in American military parlance), at Dreilinden (“Checkpoint Bravo”) and in the center of Berlin at Friedrichstrasse (“Checkpoint Charlie”).
(Eventually, the GDR built 12 checkpoints along the wall.) At each of the
checkpoints, East German soldiers screened diplomats and other officials before
they were allowed to enter or leave. Except under special circumstances,
travelers from East and West Berlin were rarely allowed across the border
The Wall Stopped the Flow of refugees From East
to West . A 12-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide mass of reinforced
concrete was topped with an enormous pipe that made climbing over nearly
impossible. Behind the wall on the East German side was a so-called “Death
Strip”: a gauntlet of soft sand (to show footprints), floodlights, vicious
dogs, trip-wire machine guns and patrolling soldiers with orders to shoot
escapees on sight.
At least 171 people were killed trying to get
over, under or around the Berlin Wall. Escape from East Germany was not
impossible, however: From 1961 until the wall came down in 1989, more than
5,000 East Germans (including some 600 border guards) managed to cross the
border by jumping out of windows adjacent to the wall, climbing over the barbed
wire, flying in hot air balloons, crawling through the sewers and driving
through unfortified parts of the wall at high speeds.
Fall Of Berlin Wall
In 1989 The USSR President
Mikhail Gorbachev Declared that USSR
will not interfere the internal issues of Eastern European countries and the
people of those countries have right to choose their Government as their wish ,
Due to the lack of
Soviet Military support The Led to losing the power of communist party in Eastern
European Countries . this crisis happened in GDR also. In November 9, 1989 as
the cold began to thaw in Eastern Europe the GDR Government Announced They wish to change their city’s
relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, the Communist Spokesman
said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and
West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At
midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints.
More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin
that weekend to participate in a celebration that was, one journalist wrote,
“the greatest street party in the history of the world.”
The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on
October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But Still now the Berlin Wall is named as a Symbol of The Cold
war
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