CELEBRATING FREEDOM.THOUSANDS of cheering Germans re-enacted the moment the Berlin Wall came crashing down - toppling 1,000 graffiti-adorned 8ft-tall dominoes that tumbled along the route. The spectacle- billed by organisers as a metaphor for the way the real wall came down and the resulting fall of communist countries in eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. - was one of several events to mark the 20th anniversary and celebrate the profound change it had not only in Germany, but Europe and the world. Chancellor Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (IPA: [ˈaŋɡela doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛɐ̯kəl]) (b. , the first east German to hold the job, called the fall of the wall an "epic" moment in history. "For me, it was one of the happiest moments of my life," Ms Merkel said. Earlier, Ms Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. border to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" Ms Merkel also welcomed Poland's 1980s pro-democracy leader, Lech Walesa Noun 1. Lech Walesa - Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943) Walesa , to the former crossing, saying that his Solidarity movement provided "incredible encouragement" to East Germans. CAPTION(S): WALL COLLAPSE: Giant dominos in front of the Brandenburg Gate Brandenburg Gate The only remaining town gate of Berlin, it is located at the western end of the avenue Unter den Linden. Carl G. Langhans (1732–1808), who built the gate (1789–93), modeled it after the propylaeum of the Athenian Acropolis. fall in a symbolic act |
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