The celebrations in Germany for the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall kept the focus on the defense of Ukrainians against Russia. The mayor-governor of Berlin assured in his speech that they should “be on the side of the people who are currently fighting for their freedom”
Under the motto “let’s preserve freedom”, Germany commemorated this Saturday, November 9, the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and which divided the city for almost three decades, with a series of public events that reminded the German capital of the separation of the country and the regained freedom.
The celebrations of this event, in which the Berlin authorities and the President of the Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, participated, kept their focus on the current defense of the Ukrainians against Russia. “The values of the 1989 revolution are those defended on the Ukrainian battlefield,” said Alexander Klausmeier, director of the Berlin Wall Foundation. “Putin’s illegal war of aggression kills, causes pain and threatens our values of freedom,” he added.
Kai Wegner, mayor-governor of the German capital, also extended his solidarity to Ukraine during his speech. “We have to be on the side of the people who are currently fighting for their freedom and survival in Ukraine,” he expressed in front of an international delegation composed, among others, of opponents of dictatorial regimes such as Cuba, Iran, Belarus, Georgia or China.
This delegation also included representatives of the Solidarnosc union, a union organization that was key in the fall of communism in Poland and which this Saturday was presented as another of the forces that made the fall of the Berlin Wall possible.
“Polish and East German opponents worked together to achieve the same goals: free elections, freedom, human rights,” Klausmeier recalled.
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President Steinmeier, along with the rest of the authorities and representatives, marched to one of the points of the Berlin Wall Memorial, to place candles, not far away where before entering the chapel they placed flowers in one of the sections of the barrier physics that separated the city.
Crisis in Germany
The commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall occurs in the midst of a political crisis due to the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s government coalition.
The German political landscape is dominated by the scenario of early elections, since Scholz dismissed his Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, this week, which caused the withdrawal of the majority of liberal ministers and the implosion of the tripartite government that they formed with social democrats and environmentalists.
In a video released on Friday, the head of the government, Olaf Scholz, declared that the values of 1989 “cannot be taken for granted.” “A look at our history and the world around us demonstrates this,” he said.
With information from EFE and AFP
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