Thirty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Australian Financial Review's then Europe correspondent Andrew Clark recalls his road trip through history.
Each week following the November 9, 1989, collapse of the Berlin Wall featured a political eruption somewhere in the Eastern Bloc. From left to right: Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, George HW Bush, Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorabchev, Lech Walesa. David Rowe
Days after the Berlin Wall collapsed, huge demonstrations signalled the game was up for another hapless communist apparat in Czechoslovakia. An American colleague observed: “It’s like having a revolution in Disneyland.”
His comment captured the extraordinary events engulfing not just Berlin and Prague - the latter is the Czech capital and the most beautiful city in Europe - but the rest of the Continent during those early, heady days of change 30 years ago.
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