What did the Fall of the Berlin Wall represent?
Published on 29 of October 2009 The debate “1989. Europe, 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall” brings together at the CCCB writers, philosophers and journalists, people who have some kind of link with that historical event that transformed Europe. We ask them how the world changed after the night of 9 November 1989, and if dreams of a freer, less divided continent really came true. Twenty years on, we also want to know which other borders or dividing lines, visible or invisible, affect humankind with the same force as the Berlin Wall. “The most dangerous wall is invisible and it separates the rich from the poor” VÁCLAV BARTUSKA, Czech writer and diplomat In 1989, Czech writer and diplomat Václav Bartuska was a student leader in the Velvet Revolution. After the end of Communism, Bartuska devoted himself to politics as a member of the Czech Parliament, and writing, with Polojasno, a book about his experience of the revolution. Bartuska thinks that the fall of the Wall changed Europe dram
