What the Berlin Wall still stands for By Chris Burns CNN Berlin
Bureau Chief November 8, 1999 Web posted at: 9:23 a.m. EST (1423
GMT) This news analysis was written for CNN Interactive. In this
story: Why the Wall went up How the Wall came down Still seeking
unity Yearning for the past BERLIN (CNN) -- There aren't many
places where history is as in-your-face as the newly restored
capital of a unified Germany. |Helping along the Berlin Wall's
demise, in 1989 For 28 years, the Berlin Wall was the starkest
symbol of the Cold War. Ten years after the Wall fell -- an
event that unified the city in a street party for days starting
November 9, 1989 -- the past still has a vivid influence on
daily lives. It starts in the morning with the heavy, acrid
smell of coal, which still heats apartments in eastern Berlin as
it did before the Wall came down. Even the air symbolizes an
ongoing tale of two cities in one, struggling to reintegrate
after four decades of division. It continues in the area where
the Wall once stood,