Seven Minutes that Shook the World
09/11/2009 18:17 - Buscando Sentido: Filosofia, Religião, Psicologia > História
por Mauricio Molan
It was now 6.58pm. I asked the most obvious question that came to mind: "Mr Schabowski, what will happen to the Berlin Wall now?". He did not answer the question, because he had no answer.
DANIEL JOHNSON, in November 1989
DANIEL JOHNSON
STANDPOINT MAGAZINE, November 2009
The Cold War was the first conflict that came close to annihilating Western civilisation — the first but almost certainly not the last. Yet the story of this global 40 Years War ended happily: it concluded almost bloodlessly in the European Revolution of 1989.
Yet I was there. As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, covering Germany from 1987 until the summer of 1989, and what was the...