“Mr Gorbachev, open this poll. Mr Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall. ”
November 9, 1989, a historical date, I would dare to say, epochal, the date of the end of a symbol, the date of the end of a world, the date of the end of an era and the beginning of a dream ... or at least, so it seemed.
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell forever, putting an end to the division of Germany into two separate nations and giving way, to the end of the dualism of the Western world against the Soviet one.
As I said, that wall was more than just a wall, more than a common fortified border line, but it was also a symbol, both to the west and to the east.
For Westerners, the Berlin Wall was the wall of shame, raised by the Soviet regime to prevent its citizens from freely choosing the world in which to live.
For the Soviets, on the other hand, it was the last tangible bulwark against American fascist capitalism, which boasted freedom and democracy and hid its true nature, as a deadly machine producing authentic poverty and absolute misery, and threatened the true free world, that Soviet.
After all, the cold war was also and above all this, a clash of civilizations between two worldviews, both failed, the expression of two superpowers who professed to be guarantors of authentic freedom against the snares and threats of their "enemies", and children of the same mother, the Enlightenment.
Two worlds, two brothers separated for some time, and who with Regan and Gorbaciv finally managed to meet, at the pungent sound of Regan's words “Mr Gorbachev, open this poll. Mr Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall. ”
But unfortunately, not all that glitters is gold and the period of peace and prosperity for the world, which seemed to take shape with the imminent end of the Cold War and a growing cooperation between the two superpowers born from the Second World War, would have lasted a little less. a decade, and today, thirty years after that wall was demolished, the world is once again divided and on the brink of an imminent and terrifying conflict.