My "Berlin Wall"
Kaimakow Boris, director of the office of the press agency Novosti in West Berlin in the years from 1986 -1989.
, vanished really been 20 years? I took a ladder from the trunk of my Mercedes-service and climbed slowly to about 3 meters. "I'm not a loser, I can do it, I make them ready," - What a stupid idea was the official head of the RIA representative office in Berlin, in 2008 again came here after the city had become one again.
The Germans looked down there curious about the madman who was sitting high on the wall. With a side glance, I noticed that one already picked his phone from his pocket. I should start already, waved his hand, jumped off and concentrated.
I had to "limit" to pass that I nachstürmten from the opposite side, the North Station. But I had a chance, they are always there if you believe in it ...
The legs of the former basketball player did not let me down, but the smokers lungs filed their protest, nearly exploded when I came to top speed. Otherwise it would not have gone only at maximum speed. And my brain forced my lungs to work at breakneck speed and oxygen hineinzupumpen. And at the first hundred yards, my legs were like lead. I glanced from the side and saw her. I immediately realized I had to run faster, other ... But at this moment, one wheel crashed into my right thigh. I was spun counter-clockwise through the air like the famous figure skater Irina Rodnina, fell on its side in the sand. For the successful "escape" to West Berlin, there were only about 20 meters. I have not made it ..
sat breathing heavily next to it me. It was she not have been easy for me on their bicycles and then seek to overthrow. I bet a case of beer. The other, 20 years ago, their lives put at risk. How many were arrested or shot on a wall length of about 168 km, which separated West Berlin from East Berlin.
Were they mad, these Germans? Did they not know that sniper shooting of guard towers and there are mined border zones and where the border runs along the water, divers and border guards with their speed boats Service provided? Yes, they knew that, but ...
we not talking about their motives, everyone had his own reasons: love, political and material considerations. But they had all dreamed of the freedom there, because they were almost suffocated from the false ideology of the impossibility of change. And they died by gunfire.
... My first impression of Germany - I will not sit on a school desk with her and does not want to learn German. I, fifth grade students did not sit next to Valya child, a cute and preppy girl from a Volga German family. The Volga Germans were forcibly expelled in the war to Siberia. Valya child refused also teaching German and did not want to sit on a school bench with me.
have children in this way we identify ourselves. She did it through the self-denial. I was with my refusal to sit next to her that the Germans hated the Russians. That was probably the starting position of all "Soviet" people in a time when the advances were not initially. That was our Berlin Wall.
Nevertheless, I went to a German class. We lived in a mining town and all the technical terms for mining were German, as well as all computer terms in English are today. My father worked as a surveyor, a surveyor at the mine. My parents came in spite of the experienced war to the sensible conclusion that German is used more than English.
German became my tool - I studied journalism and me specializes in modern German policy. All roads leading to Berlin ended after the Berlin Wall. Östlicherseits. For the western district was inaccessible to many, this was a "showcase of capitalism".
Anno 1988th We - Pavel Naumov, the recently retired head of APN (Nowsti Press Agency), today RIA Novosti) and I are close to the Check Point Charlie, one of the crossings by the Berlin Wall. Pavel Naumov
was the first correspondent for the newspaper Pravda in the postwar period in Germany. He feels even tectonic shifts of the proceedings initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev's "perestroika" and allowed anathema. "We have built this wall, you have to destroy them," he said literally. The party experienced journalist had no illusions.
The Soviet-Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko allowed himself time to comment about the temporary nature of the engineering plant of its kind in world history. And was rebuked from Moscow about the message in a rough manner.
Valentin Falin, a former senior official of APN and former Soviet ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany said, then blurred by the will of the people that would bring about the historical process. He was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev. But what is allowed to Jupiter, the ox is far allowed.
After I wrote that in Gorbachev's "common house" for West Berlin is no more room admit they said I would lose my job. The Berlin Wall was too strong political construction that journalists were allowed to speak of its temporary nature.
When the future winners in the Second World War - the USSR, the USA, Britain and France at their conference in 1945 in Yalta divides Germany into occupation zones, Berlin was divided after the same principle. The winner would jointly govern Germany. It would almost come to a third world war. "Only a few seconds and feet separated us from the disaster," said Valentin Falin by the outbreak of "Berlin crisis".
The construction of the wall, specifically the first fortifications began in the night of 13 August 1961. The former allies watched in amazement. When they left they were no longer in the eastern part of Berlin, they had their tanks on 27 October roll up to the border to the Soviet sector. Then Soviet tanks U.S. tanks based opposition. The USSR "saved the world from American blackmail and against the imperialism." Only a few seconds and meters, and more specifically the solid nerves of the tank occupants parted from a third world war ... In the nuclear age had already begun.
The Germans in the east and west agreed with the construction of the wall. For the vanquished have no choice.
My personal "Berlin Wall" began to collapse in 1973, when I logged in. The garrison near Güstrow had left to me to see Berlin. I stood before the Brandenburg Gate and motioned with my officer's cap the "Westerners", which stood outside the door. I, a lieutenant in the Soviet Army, was me of what I did, barely conscious. Where's Valya child, which I did not want to sit on a school desk? If she had seen that!
Why do I have replied to the waving of the people who stood outside the Brandenburg Gate? The answer came later. In one of his poems, said the front-line soldier and sensitive poet Alexander Meschirow this seemingly paradoxical approach.
"We have killed each other for so long, I feel suddenly
unintentionally very deep,
that this German is in this room full of well-
the only
probably the very near
around by all .
because the wall separating the people no longer, not even me. I passed every day, Check-Point Charlie. Her name was Viola. I handed her my wallet, which contained nothing other than an expensive table West chocolate. Viola, who looked very elegant in its Grenzeruniform acted as if they check my ID. She took unnoticed the chocolate and let me pass with a military salute.
This was a game that had its rules. Nevertheless, a certain madness put in it. If the wall for such people as ideologically trimmed it and I meant nothing that you could only then say about the others?
I realized that the wall began to totter, as the end of 80 years, a concert by Michael Jackson was held in front of the Reichstag building. The tour was a visit by Ronald Reagan went before the then uttered his historic words: "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate" From then on began the "Gorby-mania". Gorbachev became an important person in Germany.
And now Michael Jackson. Thousands of West Berliners had gathered on the east front of the Reichstag building and thousands of East Berliners of the wall. From behind the wall and attached to the east wing speakers sounded hot rhythms of "King Michael". The enthusiastic Audience over there and here, the Germans from the West and the East applauded.
I was overcome with a crazy idea: What if they would now break the wall? I was dizzy. That would mean the end. A king of pop music would upset Europe. But it came to nothing. They were waiting for their hour and knew that this was approaching and Gorby would help them.
And Gorby helped them. I know his advisers, who requested to use the Soviet tanks, as the situation for the government of the GDR was critical. Mikhail Gorbachev did not. He was no one award. He made his decision and she never recanted.
The East German government realized this She realized that the door to be opened. Otherwise the amount would do it myself. In the turmoil of endless rallies and the flight of thousands of East Germans to the West under the mediation of foreign embassies in other countries, said Schabowski, member of the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and secretary of the Central Committee the party on 9 November 1989 journalists that the transition to West Berlin from is now open.
The party official said against seven clock in the evening. An hour later, thousands of people gathered near my apartment in the Leipziger Strasse, which led to the Check-Point Charlie. Initially there was still fine. But a few days later began the so-called "wall sparrows" the wall to destroy. Every Berlin thought it a must to crumble even one concrete piece of the wall. This was of holes in front of everyone. Then there was a celebration of unity, the most since 1990 3 Germany October commits. The history of the association began with the destruction of the wall.
A Chance there always is.
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