My older brother was stationed there when the wall came down, and he brought home a chunk of it to give me. Very interesting and I wish I still had it but lost it in a fire in 1995 :(

@w.allencaddell6421

Жыл бұрын

I too was stationed in West Germany at this time. I've never seen as many people crying in my life. I cried for them too.

Erich Honecker was like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. He simply didn't understand what was happening.

@terryrodbourn2793

4 жыл бұрын

That’s what I believed at the time!

@diligentone-six2688

Жыл бұрын

Communists and Fascists will believe in their own Fantasies until Reality strikes them hard.

@chiensyang

Жыл бұрын

I would compare Honecker to Mao instead of Nero. Similar to Honecker, Mao ignored the devastation brought to China due to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, and the policies were continued until Mao's death. Although many would argued the Great Leap Forward was stopped in around 1960, the policy was actually never reversed, and was picked up during the Cultural Revolution when many college students were encouraged (more likely forced) to work in the farms and the factories to learn about being proletariat.

@martinlisitsata

Ай бұрын

when you are cancer stricken and have 5 years to live what is there but to play for time

I was in college when the Wall went down! I had a huge smile on my face!

@gorbachev-1986

7 жыл бұрын

Being born in 1986, I was too young to remember the wall coming down but I did recently visit Berlin. Visiting Potsdamer Platz, it is phenomenal how this no-mans-land between East and West is now a focal point. An area filled with Skyscrapers. You would be hard pressed to think that a wall once ran through the area. Nevertheless, there is still this lingering frustration between Ossis and Wessies. I suspect that it will take many decades for these distinctions to dissolve. My father was in the British army facing the Warsaw Pact in the 1980's. With this in mind, I find it somewhat unusual how easily it was for me to traverse and even stay in East Berlin when only 28 years ago, it would have been impossible for my father to have done the same thing. I find that fascinating.

@Lellobeetle

7 жыл бұрын

Same here - I was 19 and so damn proud of the bravery of the people in the Soviet satellite states, the poles and the hungarians.

@vinrusso821

6 жыл бұрын

Why are young people over there so naive about reality. Many actually believe it didn't happen. I lived in Europe at the time and remember many people from the east were memorized by the choices and electronics etc etc. The problem was it cost money, and reality set in later.Most had never seen a credit card, or many western things, and older people especially had a hard time adapting.

@johnbaugh2437

5 жыл бұрын

As I. It just seemed like over night the wall came down, all the countries expelled their communist leaders, and then the Soviet Union was no longer a thing

@robertaseremo3294

5 жыл бұрын

Just like in the Philippines EDSA REVOLUTION in 1986 when Pres Marcos 20 yrs rule as a dictator fleed and exile in Hawaii i know for certain another well follow suite in 1989 berlin wall thumble down by the people who do not luck in the world

I have something in common with George Bush. We both have a piece of the Berlin Wall. But mine is better because I picked it up off the ground myself while the wall was being dismantled. It is my most prized possession. I live in Germany and, at the time, Helmut Kohl constantly tried to take credit for the Wall's collapse - nobody believed him. A friend of mine told me that when the people broke through the barriers many of the border-guards went with 'em.

@joshuacondell1686

3 жыл бұрын

And he still wanted to restart the quarrel with Poland over Poland's legal frontiers. It's like the Germans don't learn.

@maxheadrom3088

Жыл бұрын

Kohl did play an important role. Perhaps his thing with Poland had other aims - remember that people in Poland now talk about reparations from WWII. Correction: Helmut Kohl did play an important role in German reunification.

I was in third grade, my catholic school teacher had a small chunk of concrete on her desk, she said one of her students gave it to her. Then in 2014, I actually went to Berlin and touched the sections of the wall still left standing. Amazing to be part of history!

Cool that Gorbachev and Bush are in the video

What guts those East Germans had.

@yarrn88

7 жыл бұрын

As opposed to today, when they can't even remove Merkel from power?

@starguy321

7 жыл бұрын

yarrn88 they elected Merkel you spanner, if they want to get rid of her they'll vote her out

@vinrusso821

6 жыл бұрын

They went through hell for a couple of generations. Totally isolated. The sad thing is, young people today in Europe and the States, are in some weird denial where everything is a conspiracy. Many make silly comments like "The good old days" but they didnt have to live through it. You see the desperate delight, it was the same in Russia, and all of the ex-communist countries.

@firgasz2920

5 жыл бұрын

they can´t.... merkel is a dictator whatever you vote in germany at the end you get merkel.

@larryprimeau7738

5 жыл бұрын

the peace/democracy movement began in churches in east Germany 1980-81 long before Gorbachev was in power. this was the beginning of the movement which finally forced the opening of the Berlin wall in 1989.

One of my earliest memories.

This is the 2. Time I have watched this doc. it just gets better and better😊 Thank you for the upload!

⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 1:41 Governors Island Summit 🍹NYC 1988 2:07 *🇭🇺 Rendszerváltás 1989:* Eclipse of Communism in Hungary; George Nemeth 3:03 9:20 16:57 36:11 *Enrich Honecker* 🎃 8:21 Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria 1989 10:03 🇵🇱 Solidarity Movement; Polish Round Table Agreement 1989 12:01 Bucharest Warsaw Pact Summit 1989 14:07 Bush Sr. visit 🇵🇱 & 🇭🇺 1989 15:15 James Baker III-Eduard Shevardnadze 👬🏻 Ministerial Meet, Wyoming 1989 16:11 🇨🇳 Tiananmen Square Massacre 💥 1989 17:32 Rot in GDR economy: pollution, repression, apathy, daydream 19:11 East Germans exodus 1989: via Budapest & Prague (20:34) 24:25 30:57 GDR Monday demonstrations 1989; 26:43 GDR 40th Anniversary; *_"Gorby, Gorby, Gorby"_* 36:39 Egon Krenz; Günter Schabowski press conference blunder 1989 40:05 Fall of the Berlin Wall 🧱 Nov'1989 & Euphoria 🎊🎉🥂

I showed this to my AP world Class and they thought it was the most boring thing ever. Can’t believe how kids today don’t value the experiences people went through in such. Turning point in history.

@LoneKharnivore

Ай бұрын

This and World At War should be required viewing for history classes, both for the history and the opportunity to identify and analyse bias in historiography.

@haigboardman

12 күн бұрын

They'll find it interesting when they're older.

I live about an hour away from College Station, Texas. That's where the GHW Bush Presidential Library is located. About 10 years ago I decided that since I lived that close to a Presidential library it was a bit silly that I had never been to one, even if I loathed the scumbag who was being memorialized. So I went. There was a section of the Berlin wall there. It was about 12 feet tall (IIRC) and about four feet wide. The graffiti was still on it. I broke down in tears when I saw it. 20 years later.

I remember this moment as if it were yesterday, it was such an amazing thing. A piece of the Berlin Wall came to Cape Town, at the BMW Pavilion at the Waterfront Shopping Centre. I am priviledged to have touched it with my own hands - a memorial to how the world is mutable and can change when we want it to, no matter how the vicious and nasty do not want it.

Honecker was trying to hold on for dear life.

OHMYGOD HOW WONDERFUL IT WAS!!! I was still in Sydney (Australia) at the time, we watched the telly all the time! I had several friends from behind the Iron Courtain, Poles, East Germans and Hungarians, I called them every morning before going to the office to comment on the nigh news. And when finally the Wall went down that evening we all had a few gallons of beer in a downtown pub. Regards

@pollystanding6915

4 жыл бұрын

No one asked!

@jadkatt5733

4 жыл бұрын

@@pollystanding6915 Wordd ur name is Lazarus heheheh

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

Жыл бұрын

​@@pollystanding6915 And no one asked you to say shit either. Who hurt you?

"...increasingly surreal meetings..." LOL!

It was many factors that brought about freedom for the Soviet bloc countries -there was a remarkable coalescence of the personalities and determination of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev. These four brave and determined people cut a path through the jungle that previous leaders were unwilling or unable to make happen. Secondly, the Polish people were, indeed, some of the bravest of the Soviet satellite states by keeping the pressure up for reform through Solidarity Movement. And, John Paul II worked behind the scenes to support Solidarity with his resources and contacts. The Hungarians and the East Germans were amazing in the depth of their bravery at standing up to the old regimes. It was a remarkable time and one I'm so lucky to have been a young person amazed at the transformation that I witnessed and proud of my president who played his role in the remarkable events of the day. I cried like a baby when the wall came down and families were reunited who had been separated since WWII. It was a beautiful time. I still cry with joy and sadness while I watch this episode. God Bless Gorbachev who is a very brave man, breaking out of the rusted Soviet mindset to move boldly into a world of freedom and peace.

@nonameslb

5 жыл бұрын

Freedom and peace for whom?The US is doing the same in the Middle-East for way longer.FUCK America,nothing but a terrorist organization of crime families.

@rolandacevans

2 жыл бұрын

@@nonameslb freedom for millions of Europeans.

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

Жыл бұрын

@@rolandacevans I can only imagine the comment you are replying to is "what good came from the wall coming down" but unfortunately we will never know because said commenter deleted his own comment, lol.

27:46 Haha the look on his face. :D

GHW - this docu never ceases to impress me with their interviews

Marvellous documentary series this. Excellent

What's sad is how much in China has not changed.

@terryrodbourn2793

3 жыл бұрын

The Chinese People tried at the Time and China crushed it! Remember the lone dude stopping a tank with his body?

My wife and I, both U.S. "Cold War" veterans, to this day are amazed at the courage of Polish, Hungarian, and especially East Germans who brought the iron curtain down. It's hard to describe the feeling... We never thought in our lifetime that we'd see this happen, so hardened were both sides. It was Gorbachev as much as Reagan that made it happen. Sure wish Putin would go away, though, as he isn't helping East-West relations.

Great series!

the communism of the USSR failed in that it was divisive of people, focusing too much on maintaining superiority over unity, and the more people are separated, the more things fall apart

Angela Merkel's father was a Lutheran priest and the family had the chance to leave East Germany but he told his family the people in the East would need them more than those in the West - and they stayed in the GDR.

here for my history lesson

George Bush senior was a way better president than George Bush junior.

@VIIStar

8 жыл бұрын

+Anakin Yang funny, i saw his face and my first thought was pity - he wasn't a terrible president, but his son really tarnished the name!

@UKFC

7 жыл бұрын

Anakin Yang so true

@vinrusso821

6 жыл бұрын

But of course Putin was an angel. Except he did leave many paper trails. Almost a Billion Dollars In a Panamanian Bank?? I admit there were many American high ups that also had money stashed there. Their bank secrecy laws were legendary.

@nlsupernovaable

6 жыл бұрын

that really isn't much of an achievement. it used to be the worst president ever by a longshot. but his father was a sneeky bugger as well. now i think of it, they've all been worthles backstabbers at least since nixon, and they seem to get increasingly worse as time goes on. every time i think it really couldn't get any worse. but then it does, it does get even worse. god help us if the next one is even worse then trump, we are doomed...

@NoahgotLEGO

6 жыл бұрын

Anakin Yang Hell yah

Anyone else watching this have "Winds of Change" by Scorpions come to mind when they see everyone on the wall?

@w.allencaddell6421

Жыл бұрын

One of the best bands ever!

终于找到了！

I remember watching all this on my TV and thinking : the world will be a better place... Living in 2018,damn,was I mistaken 😣

You cannot legislate human nature out of existence-people are individuals not mindless slaves! People know just who they are and what they need and want....

Someone I know got their degree in soviet studies. Berlin wall came down 4 months after he graduated.

As a soldier I was taken by our First Sargents staff car to the east german barrier fence. I got out of the car and signaled the guard in the tower. I made gestures and body language indicating that things would be alright.. twelve years later the wall came down....

@LoneKharnivore

Ай бұрын

That is an amazing story, that those attitudes existed at that time. Thnk you for sharing.

The moment they walked through....set up the sound system and hit the decks! It would be the rave of all raves😄😎👍❤️

where can I buy an iron curtain?

@jadkatt5733

4 жыл бұрын

sym innih

@shatnermohanty6678

4 жыл бұрын

@mark rylander 😂😂😂

The wall came down a couple of months after I was discharged from the Army. It was surreal.

The world needs another Gorbachev right now.

I was in Stuttgart at the time

Socialism is not a bad theory ,the only problem with theories and especially when they had to go along with all human ancient problems (greed ,war ,imperialism) is that theories cannot became practise!

@imjustbornunnamedimkanehas1903

6 жыл бұрын

I Agree

@shatnermohanty6678

5 жыл бұрын

chris sk you're absolutely right.

@kiranchochinov2757

5 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong what so ever

@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz

5 жыл бұрын

People would rather be free with poverty than taken care of while feeling comfortable.

@terryrodbourn2793

4 жыл бұрын

chris sk Say the so called Socialist using tech to write the message! Learn your history kid!

How come they never got an interview with Reagan in this?

@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz

5 жыл бұрын

Reagan started to suffer from the effects of Dementia as early as 1995. This series was filmed in probably 1997-98 and was released in 1998.

Fast forward to 2020. A lot of people admire socialism and communism and always say, "but that wasn't real commuism."

@skippythetubrat

3 жыл бұрын

In truth, it wasn't. At least according to Marx. Remember, Communism was supposed to be stateless. That doesn't change human nature nor the fact that Communism cannot happen because of human nature. It's one of the reasons I'm a Democratic Socialist.

@cxa340

2 жыл бұрын

@@skippythetubrat Democratic socialism is simply voting to steal to make you feel better - just look at Venezuela which is the only true Democratic Socialist country in the world. Venezuelans have loved it so much that millions have fled into Colombia. Democratic socialism is no different than regular socialism, because socialism denies individual rights and any true democratic rights. Democratic socialism always devolves to the curtailing of individual rights in the name of the community and defends it by saying the government and leaders were elected democratically even if elections are never to be held again as they become a hindrance to socialism to allow free Democratic elections (again look at Venezuela).

@skippythetubrat

2 жыл бұрын

@@cxa340 more nonsense from the "taxes are theft" crowd. Piss off.

@cxa340

2 жыл бұрын

@@skippythetubrat Well taxes are a form of theft when we stop considering them payment for services and primarily property of the state - but just go to Venezuela and see how democratic socialism is working there.

@skippythetubrat

2 жыл бұрын

@@cxa340 Venezuela. Always Venezuela with you morons. That's not a society based on Democratic Socialism. Frankly, there isn't a single country on the planet which is. The closest we come is Social Democracy as it exists in Western Europe. And if you want to point to full-blown Socialism/Communism, then look to China. Regardless of what you think of the economic model, you cannot deny that it has done economic wonders for the Chinese people.

And now we are going into Cold War 2.0.

@elishaarms5076

6 жыл бұрын

Yeager Bomb aaand we're there. The little Korean dictator even looks like a clone of the original

@chronic2001n

6 жыл бұрын

No, nothing even close to it.

@pratikgore6536

5 жыл бұрын

You do realize that cold war is an infinite game, players may change but the game goes on. Players may be 2, 3,4 so on. The colloquil cold war was bipolar, the current cold war has different belligerents in different spheres.

what year were all these episodes recorded?

@s.porter8646

3 жыл бұрын

1994-1996

@s.porter8646

3 жыл бұрын

If anyone knows where to find that east German girl with the glasses and short hair...give me a call

People are not cash cows-sooner or later the resistance will grow and grow!

when the consciousness of ordinary east Germans became boundless....the wall came down.

this is from which year?

@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz

5 жыл бұрын

This series was produced in 1998, less than 10 years after the events of the fall of the wall.

interestingly, they picture gorbachev as a hero, they also have to mention bloody suppression of uprisings in republics of USSR. he is responsible for that too

6:00 Russia should remember those words and stay away from Ukraine, too

Frank-Joachim Herrmann died in 2005.

There ought to be a cold war mobile app

@pratikgore6536

5 жыл бұрын

It's called quora

How is that in such a short time so many are back to thinking communism is a good idea?

@shatnermohanty6678

5 жыл бұрын

Jim Young nostalgia, romanticism and not learning from mistakes of the past. and if you become part of any group Christian, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, White/Black supremacist, feminist , misogynist, communist and any other "ist", you have an opponent, an enemy to channel all your anger and frustration, someone to blame for all problems. in case of communists that would be Capitalist, Imperialist, Colonialist and similar "ist". 😁😁

@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz

5 жыл бұрын

I went to Moldova 3 times with a church group in the 2006-2008 era. Many people we talked to missed the Soviet Union days because there were absolutes that they could count on. Before I ever went, I wondered why they don't just choose the democratic processes that we have become accustomed to in the west. They would say that they don't understand them. It took me awhile to understand that many people in the former eastern bloc don't understand anything else other than communism. Of course, it's great for the younger generations to not have to grow up like their parents did. Compare that to the idiots here in the US who want socialism, yet know nothing of its history of poverty, oppression and violence.

@LoneKharnivore

4 жыл бұрын

Don't confuse socialism with communism.

@jimyoung9262

4 жыл бұрын

@@LoneKharnivore I'm not. I chose my words deliberately.

@b.-veya8996

4 жыл бұрын

Many people do not consider the soviet total control. true communism meant progress and a future for all people. It just never happened. People simply hope that they can create something that will work.

Cataclysm of communism.

Erzsebet Hrozova died in 2013.

Anatoly Cherniayev died in 2017.

Imre Pozsgay died in 2012.

I love Germans!

37:38

21:00 real refugees

!

Soviets were a joke, trying to be a superpower while their country was struggling.

I believe if socialism with a human face was accepted from the start instead of crushing it, the communist bloc might have lived a little longer. A decade extra maybe, USSR included

@suminshizzles6951

9 ай бұрын

Now russia are fascists. State controlled media, militarized police. Russia's are like mushrooms, fed shit and kept in the dark. Ther more russians go hme in body bags in ukraine the better the world will be. The more idiots without weapons he sends as cannon fodder the better off we will all be. The sooner putler dies the better we will all be. Give him his golden retirement package. A golden bullet.

ratio

@aotearoa2772

3 жыл бұрын

shut up stupid

thank god bihari wasn't part of hungary

I wish President Reagan was still alive to give his thoughts this amazing even that he helped in bringing that eval wall and communism in western Europe down. What an amazing time to be alive and watch it all happen. Thank you, President Reagan.

Anybody notice the sad irony about then & now? 1989: Regan: _"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"_ 2016: Trump: _"We're gonna build a wall!"_ I thought we hated walls and love freedom? Spose I was wrong.

@captinbrasiliano7281

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I said it before & blast Trump every chance. Burns me up BC, He's a symbol for lost status & focus on Trivialities. We became Nitche's _Heard_ or _Last Men_ From Great Society to Celebration of the Lowest Common Denominator

@skinlesscougar

6 жыл бұрын

One wall keeps people in, one wall keeps people out the two are very different. Not that I out right agree with a wall but certainly we need better border security.

@xcesar4impx666

6 жыл бұрын

Captin Brasiliano' you are a fucking idiot!

@Beck02

3 жыл бұрын

@@shatnermohanty6678 In large part they are fleeing for their lives. The asylum process saves lives. If Mexico was annexed, cartels would simply follow their victims.

@bryancoats5328

2 жыл бұрын

When you have terrorists coming across and people looking for a handout, what the hell do you expect.

Is stalin dead?

@elishaarms5076

6 жыл бұрын

Guy Guy Seriously?

@zacharysmithandguitars355

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he is died

@shatnermohanty6678

5 жыл бұрын

if he would be alive, how old would he be?🤤

@AC-xq4hh

5 жыл бұрын

He's just been asleep for a long time

@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz

5 жыл бұрын

He died in 1953.

It’s funny how when you listen to bush senior in this he sounds smart compared to Trump or his son but in reality he was still nuts!

@williswerckle1856

Жыл бұрын

If you thought Trump was nuts, you're probably losing your mind now listening to "gropin" joe biden.

The Russian language sounds so beautiful. Maybe under Trump's leadership we shall hear it spoken regularly in this country.

@ZR1Terror

6 жыл бұрын

Elisha Arms Actually Russians are speaking English now.

@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz

5 жыл бұрын

What a ignorant, stupid bitch Elisha Arms is with that statement. Hey MS. Arms, go find one in America who speaks Russian and is over 40 years old and ask them how great communism was.

@rishabhsingh61

4 жыл бұрын

To everybody abusing the good lady, she is just using sarcasm. MORONS!!!!🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@deviantd.6740

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz Wow, have you heard of sarcasm? She was clearly critiquing Trumps relationship with Putin.

@deviantd.6740

3 жыл бұрын

@raiden z She was clearly making a sarcastic remark you idiot.

This is the very same garbage this leftist dick heads here in the US.want so bad

communism is as pleasant as killary.lying clinton

Frank-Joachim Herrmann died in 2005.