Germany: Berlin – Berlin Wall Revisited

A revisit to the Berlin Wall! The Berlin Wall was built starting in 1961 to prevent East Germans escaping to the west. It ended up being 155km long with 4-meter high walls, 293 watch towers and 57 bunkers. It was all spectacularly torn down in 1989 with the collapse of communism. Today only a small section, known as the Eastside Gallery remains with about 1.3km of murals-covered wall. The most famous graffiti painting is by a Russian artist Dimitri Vrubel depicting Leonid Brezhnev (the USSR leader) and Erich Honecker (the GDR leader) deep-French-kissing with the letters around them saying in Russian “God! Help me survive this deadly love” (a statement that’s strangely accurate for today’s Trump-Putin love affair).