For some reason the Berlin Wall was a pivotal myth of my childhood — I was very young when it was explained to me, and something about the idea of a city being cut in two like that, kept asunder by armed guards, really dug into me.
I remember that my late and ex husband was listening to a ball game on his headphones when he suddenly pulled one away from his ear, paused to catch the rest of a newsflash and say “The Berlin Wall has come down.”
Even in the mid ’80’s it was still CW that the Iron Curtain, though the regimes would be somewhat liberalized was there to stay. It was hard to imagine that within seven years it would be all over and the Soviet empire dissolved.
November 13, 2009 at 00:43
For some reason the Berlin Wall was a pivotal myth of my childhood — I was very young when it was explained to me, and something about the idea of a city being cut in two like that, kept asunder by armed guards, really dug into me.
I remember that my late and ex husband was listening to a ball game on his headphones when he suddenly pulled one away from his ear, paused to catch the rest of a newsflash and say “The Berlin Wall has come down.”
“Yeah, right,” I said.
I am not a big Leonard Bernstein fan but I bought this.
http://www.amazon.com/Ode-Freedom-Symphony-No-9/dp/B000FVQUNK/ref=pd_cp_d_1
November 13, 2009 at 02:08
Even in the mid ’80’s it was still CW that the Iron Curtain, though the regimes would be somewhat liberalized was there to stay. It was hard to imagine that within seven years it would be all over and the Soviet empire dissolved.