Marking Berlin Wall’s Fall by Toppling Giant “Dominos”

Posted: 23rd March 2009 by The Dude in Lifestyle, Oddly Enough
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Berliners plan to topple a two kilometer-long chain of giant “dominoes” along the path of the wall that once separated communist east from the west, to mark the 20th anniversary of its fall.

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“We want to knock over the wall once again,” said Klaus Wowereit, mayor of Berlin. Assembly of more than 1,000 styrofoam slabs, each 2.5 meters (eight feet) high and one meter (three feet) wide, is beginning this week.

At a ceremony on November 9, the day in 1989 on which crowds of east Germans swept through the wall and began tearing it down, the slabs will be pushed over.

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  1. Branimira says:
    February 9, 2011 at 3:43 am

    I want to say your blog is almost amazing. I always like to hear something new about this because I have the similar blog in my Country (paintball sljeme) on this subject so this help´s me a lot. I did a search on the subject and found a good number of blogs but nothing like this.Thanks for writing so much in your blog.. Greets, Branimira

  2. Kyszer Söze says:
    March 24, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    It seems strange to think it has been 20 years….I can still remember watching the images of them tearing it down on tv when I was a kid…