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20 Years After the Berlin Wall

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  • Started 3 months ago by bjones2585
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  1. bjones2585

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    From the Slavic Center
    Posted Nov 3, 2009

    Commemoration of 20 Years After the Berlin Wall: Art Installation, Lecture and Films

    Monday, November 9

    Art Installation of Wall on Mershon Plaza, 8:00a.m. – 5:00p.m. (set up at 7:00a.m.)

    Lecture: "Ground Zero in World War III: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall" by Dr. Alan Beyerchen (OSU – History), Thompson Library, 6:00 – 7:00p.m.

    Movie double feature at the Wexner Center, 7:00p.m.

    The Center for Slavic and East European Studies invites students, faculty and the general public to join us for a commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The commemoration will include the construction and destruction of an actual “Berlin Wall” on the Wexner Plaza between Page Hall and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Students are invited to help with the building and decorating/graffiting of the wall. Please contact the Slavic Center if you would like to help with set up at 7:00a.m. (csees@osu.edu)

    At 6:00pm Dr. Alan Beyerchen (OSU—History) will give a lecture on “Ground Zero in World War III: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall.” Following the lecture we highly encourage everyone to attend the Berlin Wall Double-Feature at the Wexner Center for the Arts, where Mission to Moscow and The Last Bolshevik will be playing back-to-back starting at 7:00pm.*

    *Wexner tickets cost $5 for students and $7 for the general public.

    For more information, please contact the Slavic Center at (614) 292-8770 or CSEES@osu.edu.

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  2. DavidF

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    This sounds like a great event. As a former cold warrior I think it's important that we remember what those times were like. The wall fell one week after I left active duty and I remember feeling such immense relief. We knew the Soviet bloc was falling apart and were extremely concerned that the Soviets would try to hold things together by provoking some sort of patriotic conflict. It's a testament to the peoples of the Eastern bloc that things unwound as peacefully as they did.

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  3. anillo

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  4. bjones2585

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    I'm taking a class on the rise and fall of the soviet union and the prof posted this for us, I just thought it looked really neat, and I enjoy the occasional wexner event, I especially find the soviet films interesting

    I've been really interested in hearing what people were feeling/experiencing when the wall fell/soviet union collapsed...I was really young when it happened

    thanks for sharing =)

    Posted 3 months ago # |