I resti del Muro di Berlino oggi...

Cosa resta del Muro di Berlino oggi? Solo pochi metri di cemento ancora in piedi...

Novembre 1989: la caduta del Muro di Berlino nei tg italiani di 20 anni fà...

I 3 tg della Rai danno la notizia della caduta del Muro a Berlino. E' il 9 novembre 1989 e la data diventata il simbolo del crollo del blocco orientale. Quel giorno (anzi, quella sera) si iniziò ad abbattere il Muro di Berlino, che dal 1961 divideva in due la città tedesca e che da 28 anni era il simbolo della guerra fredda. Ma quell'evento mediatico fu solo l'ultimo passo di una rivoluzione silenziosa in atto già da qualche mese.
Nel numero 35 di Focus Storia in edicola a fine agosto 2009 un dossier dedicato alle rivoluzioni che hanno cambiato il mondo (dalla rivoluzione francese a quella dottobre in Russia, fino allondata di insurrezioni del 1989...)

Rifacciamo il muro di Berlino...

Un video realizzato con una vecchia canzone di Francesco Baccini...

The Wall (1962) / Berlin Wall Documentary Film Video...

The Wall (1962) / Berlin Wall Documentary Film Video. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Government film about the erection of the Berlin Wall. From the holdings of the National Archives.Sponsor: United States Information Agency. The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a physical barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany), including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany. Both borders came to symbolize the Iron Curtain between Western and Eastern Europe and, ultimately, between USA and the Soviet Union. The wall separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter-century, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961 until the Wall was opened on November 9, 1989. During this period, at least 136 people were confirmed killed trying to cross the Wall into West Berlin, according to official figures. However, a prominent victims' group claims that more than 200 people were killed trying to flee from East to West Berlin. The East German government issued shooting orders to border guards dealing with defectors; such orders are not the same as shoot to kill orders which GDR officials denied ever issuing. When the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin, crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were chipped away by a euphoric public and by souvenir hunters; industrial equipment was later used to remove almost all of the rest of it. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on October 3, 1990. On Saturday, 12 August 1961, the leaders of the GDR attended a garden party at a government guesthouse in Döllnsee, in a wooded area to the north of East Berlin, at which time Ulbricht signed the order to close the border and erect a wall. At midnight, the police and units of the East German army began to close the border and by Sunday morning, 13 August 1961, the border with West Berlin was closed. East German troops and workers had begun to tear up streets running alongside the border to make them impassable to most vehicles, and to install barbed wire entanglements and fences along the 156 km (97 miles) around the three western sectors and the 43 km (27 miles) which actually divided West and East Berlin. The Soviets were not directly involved. The barrier was built slightly inside East Berlin or East German territory to ensure that it did not encroach on West Berlin at any point, and was later built up into the Wall proper, the first concrete elements and large blocks being put in place on August 15. During the construction of the Wall, NVA and KdA soldiers stood in front of it with orders to shoot anyone who attempted to defect. Additionally, chain fences, walls, minefields, and other obstacles were installed along the length of the inner-German border between East and West Germany. Due to the closure of the East-West sector boundary in Berlin, the vast majority of East Germans could no longer travel or emigrate to West Germany. Many families were split, while East Berliners employed in the West were cut off from their jobs; West Berlin became an isolated enclave in a hostile land. West Berliners demonstrated against the wall, led by their Chancellor Willy Brandt, who strongly criticized the United States for failing to respond. Allied intelligence agencies had hypothesized about a wall to stop the flood of refugees, but the main candidate for its location was around the perimeter of the city.

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall...

Little piece about the Berlin Wall. Includes audio of Reagan's famous "Tear down this wall!" speech. Try to keep these historical events in mind when you read the paper or vote in the presidential election next year. Remember that those people on the other side of the "wall" are human just like us. "No more wars, no more walls, a united world."-Berlin Wall Graffiti.

Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989

A short storyline about the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989...

IL CROLLO DEL MURO DI BERLINO NEL 1989...

Novembre 1989: cade il Muro di Berlino! Molte sciagure investiranno l'Europa dell'Est dopo quei giorni di esultanza e delirio di felicità e speranza di pace!!!

GIULIO ANDREOTTI NON AVREBBE PERMESSO LA CADUTA DEL MURO DI BERLINO!

GIULIO ANDREOTTI NON AVREBBE PERMESSO LA CADUTA DEL MURO DI BERLINO...ALMENO QUALCOSA DI BUONO AVREBBE FATTO MA NON E' RIUSCITO NEMMENO IN QUESTA IMPRESA STORICA!!!

FILMADO HOMICIDIO DA MAFIA A NAPOLES- ITALIA 2/2 (comento escritor Roberto Saviano - em italiano)

A polícia napolitana divulgou, ontem, o vídeo do homicídio de Mariano Bacioterracino, um elemento da Camorra, que ocorreu no passado dia 11 de Maio no bairro La Sanitá, em pleno centro de Nápoles, na Itália.

As imagens são violentas e frias. Registam como se morre na Camorra, no sul de Itália, em plena União Europeia : com indiferença e calma absoluta sem hesitações. Em segundos, tudo acontece na rua, em plena luz do dia.

O assassino dispara quatro vezes: no corpo, na cabeça e finalmente um tiro na nuca. Ao terminar a matança, o assassino põe-se em marcha tranquilamente, sem pressas. A senhora que aparece no vídeo também caminha sem sequer olhar para trás mesmo depois de escutar tiros.

Bacioterracino, de 53 anos, era membro da Camorra especialista em assaltos a bancos. A polícia continua sem dados do assassino depois de meses de investigação decidiu exibir o vídeo no sentido de pedir a colaboração dos cidadãos.

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Agguato di stampo camorrista nel rione Sanità di Napoli (11/05/2009).
Il tutto sotto il comportamento talvolta menefreghista, talvolta omertoso dei passanti.

Il filmato viene diffuso dal pm Sergio Amato e dai carabinieri di Napoli per lanciare un appello al riconoscimento, anche in forma anonima, dei due sicari.

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A murder of the Camorra mafia in Naples, out of the coffee-house, in the middle daylight.
People look at little more than casual, and when the murderer and accomplices flee as if nothing had happened serious.
Some even go on the corpse of the victim.