Friday, October 23, 2009

It was 20 years ago (not quite) today...


November 1989 was a watershed year in global politics. That was the year in which the Iron Curtain was finally parted - a process which began (at least in the most visible sense) - with Lech Walesa's leadership of the Solidarity party in Poland and ended with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. There are lots of articles and reminiscences being published now - many along of the lines of, "Where were you when the Wall fell?" and the like.
But whether you read German or not, almost everyone can learn from this very cool multimedia graphic published in the Berliner Morgenpost.