It has been 25 years since Mikhail Gorbachev took Ronald Reagan's advice and tore down the Berlin Wall. In order to mark the occasion hundreds of thousands of germans took to the streets of the city and released balloons into the air, Reason TV reports.
The centerpiece of Berlin’s 3-day celebration marking the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is an art installation called Lichtgrenze, where 8,000 balloons allowed people to visualize exactly how this ancient city was divided, sometimes in the middle of a street, by a massive, inscrutable and seemingly endless column of cement.
Lichtgrenze is the work of Berlin based artists and brothers Christopher and Marc Bauder.
Each one of the balloons released carried a note with a memory or reflection on the days of the wall.
It may not have reached 1989 levels of ecstasy, but the freedom and unity spawned that night were enjoyed by the throngs who drank and sang and contemplated the Cold War times that generations of Germans accepted as reality, only to end suddenly, with a big party.