As a reporter, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff hitch-hiked overnight to Berlin to cover the story. Daniel Fried was working at the Polish desk at the U.S. State Department when the wall came down. Sergey Shestakov was the chief of staff for the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations.
All Posts Tagged With: "Cold War"
Interviews
November 9, 2009
Both sides remember the day the Berlin Wall fell down
Video
November 9, 2009
U.S. presidents seize political spotlight in symbolic Berlin
Berlin lies at the center of the German political imagination and was the focal point of the Iron Curtain that separated Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War. Berlin has also played host to some of America's greatest presidential speeches -- by JFK, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.
In the Newsroom
November 9, 2009
Say ‘goodbye’ to the Iron Curtain
Worldfocus producer Christine Kiernan writes about the monumentality of the events that transpired during the fall and winter of 1989 and how much the world has changed since then. She analyzes what the fall of the Iron Curtain meant to her.
Peter Eisner (blog)
August 17, 2009
Cold warriors are still with us, and history is now
This weekend the National Security Archive published documents showing that President Richard M. Nixon had sought help from Brazil in 1971 to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende. Peter Eisner discusses the significance of these documents and what we haven't learned from history.
Video
December 19, 2008
Russian warships visit Cold War ally Cuba
Christopher Sabatini of the Council of the Americas discusses Russian warships docking in Havana and potential changes to Cuba-U.S. relations under Barack Obama.
Video
November 26, 2008
Russian president makes first trip to Venezuela
Nikolas Kozloff explains the significance of Dmitiri Medvedev's meeting with Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.
