The Hit Farm

Kelly Hignett at The View East writes about the Berlin wall, and its historical significance as a divide between East and West, as it is now 50 years since the wall – demolished in 1989 – was constructed. Germany commemorates the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall this week. That wall wasn't [...]

Fifty years after construction of the Berlin Wall was begun, its enduring legacy is not the inspiring notion that freedom and the will of the people can knock down any barrier. Instead, the lesson learned has been that Communists erected the Berlin Wall. The president of the United States advised citizens to build bomb shelters. [...]

“…most people also believed that Moscow was behind the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. Once I was able to read the documents from the archives of the former Soviet and East German leaders, I found that in As the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall approaches, witnesses share their [...]