Fall of the Berlin Wall event
also: tearing down the wall, East German government fell, Berlin Wall fell, the wall fell, the Berlin Wall still came down, Berlin Wall came down
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West Germanycountry · 6Soviet Unioncountry · 3Solidarity Centerorganization · 2Irancountry · 1United Statescountry · 1Washington, D.C.place · 1Polandcountry · 1Germanyplace · 1Czechoslovakiacountry · 1Mikhail Gorbachevperson · 1Hungarycountry · 1Langleyplace · 119th Infantry Divisionorganization · 1Stasiintelligence service · 1Brent Scowcroftperson · 1Edward Cardonperson · 1George H.W. Bushperson · 1Iraq War Surgeevent · 1Ronald Reaganperson · 1September 11 attacksevent · 1
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knowing that Iran-Contra is hanging out there in the wind. So they're claiming credit for this sudden shift in the Soviet Union. East Germans began escaping to the West through Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Efforts were made to seal Eastern G…
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Gorbachev gave no comfort to the German communists who wanted to push back on the resistance. Instead, the East German government fell and the cabinet that took over from them resigned in turn. Their successors told East Germans that they c…
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began tearing down the wall. These events excited everybody in Washington and the CIA. President Bush said in his Oval Office meeting with Brent Scrocoff that they turned on the television immediately and watched the entire thing. At Langle…
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In the late 80s. I think that, I mean, look, you definitely had, you know, the communist secret police running Poland. In East Germany, you had the Stasi, and they were horrible. Things seemed to get more democratic after, you know, the Ber…
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Poland was kind of the reason that the irony of ironies, the Berlin Wall fell and it was, you know, a trade union movement. And they were able to, I'm not sure if they used strategy of tension to.…
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followed by his first tour in Iraq. His career thus far had been extraordinary, but even in ways beyond his resume, he was serving in Germany on the day the wall fell. He was working in the Pentagon during the 9-11 attack. He was the deputy…
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They did not have part-time jobs. They were the houses that had all the big swimming pools everybody wanted to go to the parties at. But, yeah, not a good thing. Sean, go ahead. Thank you very much, Colonel, for letting me speak. I'm just w…
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was the beginning of a crack-up. The jewel of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe was undoubtedly East Germany. In 1989, East Germany, with a population of little more than 16 million people, had an estimated 2 million of them working in int…
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In East Germany at the time, the wall fell. One out of every eight people was informing the government on their fellow citizens. That's mind-blowing. That doesn't seem to make sense. We mistakenly believe that more people working in the gov…
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as to what's going on in our government. He goes on to say that he was in the CIA when the Berlin Wall came down, and I recall the shock and disbelief of those times. I had joined the CIA to fight a war I expected to last decades more, but …