Berlin Wall Remnants - Mountain View, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 25.802 W 122° 05.957
10S E 579689 N 4142959
Two panels of the Berlin Wall in Mountain View.
Waymark Code: WMCNTJ
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/26/2011
Views: 6
The two panels are at the end of a office park parking lot on Marine Dr. The office complex is close to Highway 101. One one of the piece is the graffiti "Wir Liebe Dich" or "We love you" The other piece has a graffiti man. The pieces sits behind the metal barrier with a plaque that reads:
"The period after the Second World War divided Western Democratic and Eastern Communist political ideologies by what was known as the Iron Curtain, which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Within East Germany, part of the communist sphere of influence, West Berlin was an island of freedom surrounded by a sea of oppression. In August 1961, the East German Government to prevent the flight of its citizens from East to West Berlin built a wall dividing the city. For 28 years, the Berlin Wall was the Rubicon for East and West until Glosnost became the new thinking in the community world. Between November 9 and 12 1989 the wall was breached; not from without with bombs or bullets, but from within by the sound of freedom and the vision of a better life that had drifted over the wall.
The world must not forget that it was America's resolve of its political and economic ideals that made the bloodless revolution abd most significant event possible.
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