Can You Imagine a Wall in a Town?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Today's 20 years since the Berlin Wall was demolished on 9 November 1989. Today we can't imagine having a wall in a town, but back then it was one of the biggest Cold War symbol.

Today most people have mobile phones, cable television, parabolic antennas and of course, home computers with the Internet. Until the late 1980's, radio and television were much easier to put under government control. A government could easier lock up its own people at home, banning them from travelling with strict police controls. This was once reality, and I'm not talking about back in the days of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece or the Roman Empire, but back in the days of Madonna, Michael Jackson and Roxette.

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a spread of democracy. On 3 October 1990 the FR Germany and the GDR merged and on 25 December 1991 it was decided to break up the USSR. The Cold War was over.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

All the described technology has failed to stop oppression. Look at China, Burma, etc.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

All the described technology has failed to stop oppression. Look at China, Burma, etc.

The Internet is one of the biggest enemies of the leaders in the PR China and the government tries to block Wikipedia.

[Roland]

The Internet is one of the biggest enemies of the leaders in the PR China and the government tries to block Wikipedia.

Wait a minute do they block facebook, twitter etc. in China?

A wall in my town that is a tuff one. I guess a wall with a lot of artwork on aka graffiti. Also a lot of birds nest on the wall.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

The Internet is one of the biggest enemies of the leaders in the PR China and the government tries to block Wikipedia.

There is a separate Chinese Internet; how successful it is in preventing access to the outside Internet is uncertain. But there have been, during the Cold War, propaganda radio broadcasts from both sides.

The Berlin Wall fell when the Soviet Union was already dying and losing its grip on Eastern Europe.

[Ninjinister]

My city has tons of walls. They prop up roofs. Together, they're called buildings.

[Raph's Girl]

Today's 20 years since the Berlin Wall was demolished on 9 November 1989.

Wow... 20 years ago. I remember as a kid seeing the wall itself and I watched on tv as it was torn down (and David Hasselhoff singing on it :lol: ) My dad has a piece of it.

[Sewer Bull]

Political threads are not allowed here. Somebody stop them now.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

(and David Hasselhoff singing on it :lol: )

Was it "Looking for Freedom"?

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

In medieval times, walls surrounded cities and towns to keep out invading armies and riffraff hiding in the countryside.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

In medieval times, walls surrounded cities and towns to keep out invading armies and riffraff hiding in the countryside.

I know that, and in the town of Visby on Swedish Baltic Sea Island of Gotland the town wall is still arround in 2009, even if it's not used as in the Middle Ages, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_wall_of_Visby

[Sewer Bull]

I guess remaining city walls like that are everywhere in Europe, not like it's anything worth discussing.

[Voltron]

This is like a Q&A session in an autistic classroom with controlled, pertinent posts by Mino every so often. Stream of consciousness FTL.

[That Matt Guy]

Can you imagine The Wall actually succeeding in WCW?

[BubblyShell22]

That gimmick was horrible, but not as horrible as when he would dance all the time.

As for the Berlin Wall, it's good that it was taken down. I saw on the news that people formed a human chain where the wall was taken down.

[Raph's Girl]

I guess remaining city walls like that are everywhere in Europe, not like it's anything worth discussing.

Well yes... There's the Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany. It's all that's left of the wall that once surrounded the city when it was the western capital of the Roman Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Nigra The oldest structure I've ever been in. :D

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Israel has bullt a wall towards the Palestinians. People have written scribble on the wall, like "Ich bin ein Berliner" and "I Want My Ball Back". You know who says the second phrase?

Answer: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JEHaWKDzyT2nW4APpzuHdw

[Lynn]

Germany now has freedom and amen to that.