Jeffrey Goldberg
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The Backstory: 25 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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November 10, 2014
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4:21Now PlayingOn November 9, 1989, people gathered on the Berlin Wall with sledgehammers and pick axes and began to demolish the wall that separated East and West Berlin. Two years after President Ronald Reagan issued his challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," the fall of the wall kicked off a series of events that led to the reunification of East and West Germany and the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union. Former Washington Post Moscow Bureau Chief and current New York Times White House Correspondent Peter Baker reflects on the fall of the wall in 1989 and the current state of the East/West divide. As Baker argues, the wall is now virtual and has shifted east to Ukraine where "divisions we thought were ending 25 years ago have reared their head again." As tensions rise between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, are we seeing a new Cold War emerge?
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