30 Years Iron Curtain @ironcurtain30
covering the key events and news stories from the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of Communism in East Central Europe, 30 years to the day. #ironcurtain30 Joined December 2013-
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18 Feb 90: DDR: Opinion polls in the DDR show support for the main parties as PDS 18%, SPD 48% and CDU 21%.
19 Feb 90: DDR: DDR begins the demolition of the Wall in Central Berlin.
16 Feb 90: Yugoslavia: Milosević demands "illegal immigrants from Albania living within a mile of the Albanian frontier be repatriated"
13 Feb 90: DDR: Margaret Thatcher proposes a "four plus two" conference, Genscher already having suggested "two plus four" talks.
13 Feb 90: DDR: Summit meeting between Kohl and Modrow and his 17 ministers in Bonn. Modrow wants the Germanies to progress towards an economic community immediately after the Volkskammer elections
12 Feb 90: NATO and Warsaw Pact foreign ministers meet in Ottawa, Canada, for discussions on German unification.
12 Feb 90: DDR: "Jetzt hilft nur die totale Kapitulation der DDR" Lothar Späth, FRG politician. Volkskammer passes the Joint-Venture-Gesetz
11 Feb 90: Bulgaria: First independent trade unions since 1944 are created in Bulgaria.
11 Feb 90: DDR: Liberal parties in the DDR (LDP, FDP, Deutsche Forumspartei) formally agree to form common group, the Bund Freier Demokraten
11 Feb 90: USSR: Gorbachev gives his blessing to German unification.
10 Feb 90: DDR: Kohl and Gorbachev meet privately in Moscow and talk for four hours.
8 Feb 90: Hungary: Hungary honours Cardinal Mindszenty who died in 1975, and ends the state making up the Church's mind for it.
8 Feb 90: DDR: The CSU suggests to the Nobel Committee that this year's peace prize should be given to the population of Leipzig
8 Feb 90: USSR: US Secretary of State Baker makes new proposals to Shevardnadze for accelerating START and troop withdrawals,
8 Feb 90: USSR: Soviet Politburo member Yakovlev says the USSR has no reservations on German unification.
8 Feb 90: DDR: Slovenia's claimed right to split away from Yugoslavia breaches the federal constitution, according to a statement issued
7 Feb 90: USSR: The Lithuanian Supreme Council declares the annexation of the country by the Soviet Union in 1940 as "illegal."
7 Feb 90: DDR: Kohl announces that his cabinet is prepared to offer the DDR economic and monetary union in negotiations. The proposal takes the eastern government by surprise. A cabinet committee "German Unity" is created, chaired by Kohl.
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@mart2362 @ironcurtain30 It was republished under the title ‘The Darkness Crumbles’ by Hutchinson in around 1991. Try ABEbooks.co.uk.
A charming reminder of a favourite one of mine too 😎
Among my favourite eye witness accounts of the events in East Central Europe in 1989 are those by the then BBC journalist John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews . His book is a street-level view of the changes as they swept through each country, almost in turn ow.ly/EMnUW
In the words of the Timothy Garton Ash, Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution – 30 years ago this month – was ‘swift, entirely non-violent, joyful and funny’. From the December issue, now on sale: bit.ly/34cfA1x
‘We the People’/‘The Magic Lantern’ were key background texts to my PhD work. A fantastic capture of the atmosphere of the time.
23 Nov 89: ČSSR: 'Day Seven' British journalist, historian and author Timothy Garton Ash @fromTGA arrives in Prague ow.ly/EkmD1
My mum was born in Germany after the war & many of her relatives were in East Berlin meaning little to no contact was possible. This event was life changing for her & our extended family. The impact throughout Europe of the wall bring brought down is being shown in this account.
23 Nov 89: DDR: Pensioner quoted in western media: Back then, they put up the wall so we wouldn't all clear off, now they're tearing it down so that we don't all go
This account is particularly worth following this fall to remind us of how the Soviet satellite countries got their independence.
21 Nov 89: ČSSR: On Janacek embankment, 46 paramilitary vehicles including armoured cars with ploughs are at readiness, should demos try to march on Hradcany Castle. A nearby banner states "do not march to the castle. Let the castle come to us."
The actions of individuals are at the heart of every momentous event in world history. #BerlinWall #IronCurtain #Mauerfall30
9 Nov 89: DDR: 2330: Lacking direction, Stasi Lt Col Harald Jäger decides to raise barrier at Bornholmer Str crossing irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
Thirty years ago today, people power helped pull aside the Iron Curtain. Revisit the news and events in bite size tweets, day by day - follow @ironcurtain30 #BerlinWall30
Favourite moment in history & blast from a past life where working with teachers & educators to look at how we teach history using historic sites & eyewitness testimony was my job. We heard some amazing stories both pre- & post-1989, told in some extraordinary places.
9 Nov 89: DDR: The day that the #BerlinWall #BerlinerMauer fell.
#FF @ironcurtain30 - “covering key events and news stories from the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of Communism in East Central Europe, 30 years to the day.”
@ironcurtain30 That early? Wow. Case for inevitability.
GCSE: Mr Burrows recommends a twitter feed looking at the events that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall as they happened @ironcurtain30 #gcse #history #historyteacher
@sssspalll @eucopresident This tweet is about Central Europe you balloon
The Inimitable Baltic Way-a chain of 2 mil. people, 600km long, connecting Lithuania, Latvia&Estonia 30 years ago. The purpose of this peaceful political demonstration was to show that the aspirations for freedom&democracy in the Baltic countries were never quenched. #BalticWay30
Last week I spoke to someone from the fundraising committee for the new Berliner Schloss on the site of the #GDR's Palace of the Republic. I asked him to tell me about what was there before the new Schloss. He said the old one was. The Palace was only a blip in the timeline.
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