Cold War leaders recall fall of Berlin Wall

The former leaders of the Soviet Union, West Germany and the US have met on Berlin to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 year ago.

Gorbachev also remembered two absent European leaders — former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, now 84 cheap Inflatable Advertising
and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and the late French president Francois Mitterand.

At a Saturday ceremony attended by 1,800 people, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl and George Bush gathered on Saturday in the German capital to recall the events that paved the way for the Wall's opening on November 9, 1989 and the end for the Cold War.

Eleven months after the Wall's opening, the German communist system was finished and West and East Germany were adult Inflatable Toys reunited. Researchers said at least 136 people were killed trying to cross to the West.

The ceremony, held in an theater on Friedrichstrasse, just east of where the Berlin Wall stood until 1989, kicked off a week of celebrations in the German capital marking the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall.

The former Soviet leader said an reunited Germany had not always been seen as a desirable outcome.

"Thatcher and Mitterand and myself, they defended the position that there needed to be two Germanys," Gorbachev said. "I'm sorry, Helmut. We didn't have good relations at the start."

Other former leaders who attended the event included Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former leader of Poland and Miklos Nemeth, the then prime minister of Hungary.