"Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed."
-Jack Kemp
The fall of the Berlin wall had signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War, but, more significantly, the end of the Soviet Union and Communism. The wall had not only symbolized a divided city, and a divided country, but a divided world. A world split between those against communism, and those supporting it. The wall was a symbol for the rising tensions as the strain of the Cold War took it's toll. The wall did not serve as just a physical barrier, but also as a political one. It barred East Germany from a free world in the west.
Following the fall of the wall, communism in Germany collapsed, and like a row of dominos, the communist governments of Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland collapsed as well . The wall's demise was a representation for the demise of a great and powerful divide. It's fall reminded the world that a renewed union was beginning to form. As East and West Germany began to merge together once more and the previously divided countries, the world ultimately could come together.
Following the fall of the wall, communism in Germany collapsed, and like a row of dominos, the communist governments of Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland collapsed as well . The wall's demise was a representation for the demise of a great and powerful divide. It's fall reminded the world that a renewed union was beginning to form. As East and West Germany began to merge together once more and the previously divided countries, the world ultimately could come together.