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...race was not immutable, and that the rivalry between East and West that had defined the Cold War could be defused through diplomacy and persuasion. In Gorbachev, he found a partner with whom he could do business. And in the people of Eastern Europe, including those gathered at the Brandenburg Gate that day in June, he found an audience ready to take history into their hands. On this point, Shultz says, "for anyone who came and looked at the Wall, you couldn't help but say, tear down this wall. That was your instinctive reaction to it. It was just...
...Twenty years ago, on the morning of June 12, 1987, Reagan arrived in Berlin, on the occasion of the city's 750th birthday. He was scheduled to speak on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate, for years the city's symbolic dividing line. His speechwriters had drafted an address intended as much for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom Reagan was forging a close relationship, as for the 20,000 people who gathered to hear him speak. In the speech, Reagan would call on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, but that language was opposed strongly by Reagan...
...reputation along with Franz Ackermann, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger and a rising generation of young iconoclasts. Majerus made waves by painting the entire façade of the Italian pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale with a pastiche of famous artworks. In 2002 he covered Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate with a digital rendering of a graffiti-blighted East Berlin housing block...
Etges' theory is certainly backed up by this fine collection. But for older Berliners, the best part of the new museum may be its location: the heart of what was East Berlin, next to the famous Brandenburg Gate. An area that was once ringed by razor wire and overlooked by watchtowers, it's now a place that you can visit whenever you choose. tel: (49-30) 20 65 35 70; thekennedys.de
...sports a huge glass dome by British architect Norman Foster that sits over the plenary hall - from the viewing deck inside you can look down and see parliamentarians at work. Just behind the Reichstag, look carefully for the cobblestone line marking where the Wall once stood. Passing the Brandenburg Gate, you travel on Unter den Linden boulevard with its elegant 18th century buildings, which contrast sharply with the stark East bloc architecture of Alexanderplatz, the final stop. Cost: single ticket $2.55, full-day ticket $7.00. Journey time: about 30 min. Lisbon: Pick up the No. 28 tram at Largo...