#Mauerfall30

When the US, the Soviet Union, the UK and France decided to separate what remained of Germany in 1945 and even more when soviet Germany built a wall around West Berlin in 1961, they divided a whole people, families, friends, and lives. For 28 years, both halves of the city lived apart from each other. People were living a few meters apart and breathed the same air, but they didn’t eat the same food, didn’t live the same way and didn’t have the same rights. The entire world at that time was divided between the capitalist and communist worlds.

Then, on the 9th of November 1989, the situation becomes no longer possible. For several months, the Soviet Union had slowly begun to fall, and so did the Wall. Thanks to the women and men who fought hard for freedom and unity, the German people was once again a single nation.

This post is not about writing the history of the Berlin Wall and what happened during the Cold War all in details, you’ll find very good articles on the internet or in history books. What I want to say today is simply that if we want to have a tiny little chance to win the fights we need to get a better future (even just a future), we must be united.

We have no chance of getting anything if we are divided. Even if that’s a political strategy used more and more today, we’ve got to be strong and keep united all the same.

Of course, I can’t avoid talking about other walls in that post today. America’s Donald Trump is building a massive one all the way along the border with Mexico (and even down Colorado 😉). Almost all countries in Eastern Europe have closed their boundaries too. And in every single other country, nationalist, far-right parties talking about doing the same are rising faster than ever since the end of WWII. People want to divide us. We’ve got to say “NO”. We don’t want walls. We don’t want to be divided. Because it’s only together that we can achieve great things.

Stay united. Be friends with others

Danke Berlin