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BERLIN (AP) Germany on Sunday celebrates 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 15-kilometer (nine-mile) chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released into the air early Sunday 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

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Spectators walk alongside balloons of the art project Lichtgrenze 2014 (lit. lightborder 2014) in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. The light installation featuring 8,000 luminous white balloons commemorates the division of Berlin where the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall is marked with numerous events on theweekend. (Full-size photo)(All photos)

BERLIN (AP) Germany on Sunday celebrates 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 15-kilometer (nine-mile) chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released into the air early Sunday 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 of ferment that ushered in Polands first post-communist prime minister and saw Hungary cut open its border fence. The hardline leadership in East Berlin faced mounting pressure from huge protests and an exodus of citizens via other communistcountries.

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