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Cowdenbeath, Scotland - Twenty-five years ago the heavy thud of the Berlin Wall falling resonated around the world. The Cold War was over. There were parties and celebrations, laughter and tears of joy.
But among communist supporters in Western Europe, images of armed guards standing idly by as elated East Germans danced on the barricades were a source of consternation, not jubilation.
More than a thousand kilometres from the Brandenburg Gate, in the Scottish mining town of Cowdenbeath, Mary Doherty sat sobbing in front of the evening news on November 9, 1989. For decades she ran the weekly Socialist Sunday School.
"Her world was shattered," recalls veteran local communist Jackie Allan. "Everything was the Soviet Union, then it was gone."
A few kilometres away in Ballingry, a small hamlet of post-war suburban pebbledash terrace houses at the foot of green hills, councillor Willie Clarke remembers being "stunned" when the Berlin Wall fell.
"It was something you didn't see happening, and it happened so quickly. It took a long time to recover," says Clarke.
[Communism] caught your imagination, they were radical, wanted change, they were not prepared to accept things as they were.
- Willie Clarke, councillor
Standing in Cowdenbeath today, its quiet streets dotted with "to let" signs and bargain stores, it is hard to imagine that this was once a hotbed of communist agitation. In the 1920s, the red sandstone town hall - still the most impressive building on High Street - flew the Red Flag on the anniversary of the Russian revolution. At the time, the government in London feared that any left-wing insurrection in Britain would start in Cowdenbeath.
As late as 1973, communists won 12 council seats in Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath. Clarke was among the councillors elected that day. Remarkably, Clarke, now in his late 70s and having lost his left ear to cancer, is still a local councillor for Ballingry.
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UK communists and the fall of the Berlin Wall
"Ich bin ein Berliner,'' John F. Kennedy proclaimed in 1963. Of communism's defenders, he roared, "Let them come to Berlin!''
Standing at the communist barrier dividing the same city 24 years later, Ronald Reagan cried, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!''
The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9 raises a nostalgic question: Whatever happened to the kind of inspirational presidential oratory that helped bring down that wall - and Soviet communism?
In the history of the American presidency, such triumphs are few and fragile. Even those great Berlin lines might not have been delivered.
Kennedy's famous words were not in the final draft of his prepared text. The signature line in Reagan's speech was strenuously resisted by senior advisers., and it didn't make a big impression at the time.
Today, when President Obama's rhetoric seems unable to stop aggression in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the two Berlin speeches demonstrate the power of words to influence world affairs, as well as their limits.
The speeches also illustrate how hard it is for any president to find the right words and how crucial context is to their impact.
The Kennedy and Reagan speeches defined the Berlin Wall. The first speech helped make it an international symbol of political oppression. The second arguably helped bring it down.
Each speech was a tightrope walk. On one level, Kennedy and Reagan acted like passionate Cold Warriors. Kennedy went off script and Reagan uncharacteristically shouted his most provocative line.
But both men were at stages in their presidency when they were trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union. Kennedy wanted to ease tensions aroused by the Cuban missile crisis a year earlier. Reagan was building a relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev based on the latter's embrace of glasnost - openness.
BERLIN Germany celebrates today the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the countrys emergence as the major power at the heart ofEurope.
A 9-mile chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released into the air early this evening around the time on Nov. 9, 1989, when a garbled announcement by a senior communist official set off the chain of events that brought down the Cold Wars most potentsymbol.
The opening of East Germanys fortified frontier capped months
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Saturday. He was attending a symposium on the fall of the BerlinWall. (Full-size photo)
Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday had strong words for the United States and its allies over growing tension between Moscow and the West, a development that he believes has put the world on the brink of a new Cold War. Speaking at a symposium in Berlin as part of commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the former Soviet leader said the Wests subsequent policy approach led to the current state ofaffairs.
Instead of building new mechanisms and institutions of European security and pursuing a major demilitarization of European politics, the West, and particularly the United States, declared victory in the Cold War. As a result, he said, a blister has now turned into a bloody, festeringwound.
Gorbachev said recent actions by the West including economic sanctions against Russia leveled by the U.S. and European Union in response to Russias policies in eastern Ukraine as well as discussions over the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had further unraveled thesituation.
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