Summary
Twenty years ago, Natalia Spektor stood at a hotel registration desk in Italy when a radio in the lobby broadcast news that the Berlin Wall was coming down.
Tired from three weeks of traveling -- from her native Ukraine, through Austria, enroute to the United States -- Spektor, a Russian Jew, was shocked to hear that the communist barrier would open for the first time since 1961. She carried only two suitcases of belongings and had just $105 worth of Russian rubles in her pocket, but she could not have been happier.See the full content of this document
Extract
Historic Collapse of Berlin Wall Opened Gate to New World, Fall of Soviet Union
She knew, with the fall of the wall, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union loomed on the horizon.
"It was a big shock to all of us," Spektor recalled. "We understood that some revolution was coming."The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Ber...See the full content of this document
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