News / Clark County News East Berlin, 1968 Memories of a wall that fell Vancouver man remembers brush with Soviet soldiers during surreal visit into Communist zone ...

Berlin – Every Berliner knows him. And millions of tourists have taken photos with a picture of him. His faded, larger-than-life-sized portrait has loomed for 25 years over Checkpoint Charlie ...

In reality, the wall, which turned East Berlin into a vast open-air prison, ... 7 East German soldiers patrolling along the wall near Berlin's train station in September 1987.

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...