Jim’s Daily Rant. The Real Heroes of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall.

The Soviet Union collapsed on November 9th, 1989 after a peaceful revolution. It fell by accident at that moment.

See this from Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world (2019):

“World events often move fast, but it is hard to match the pace and power of change in 1989.

It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet-led communist bloc teetering on the brink of collapse and helped define a new world order.

How did the Wall come down?

It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.

East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans. They had not intended to open the border up completely.

The changes were meant to be fairly minor - but the way they were delivered had major consequences.”

. . . . . Harald Jäger, a border guard in charge that evening, told Der Spiegel in 2009 that he had watched the press conference in confusion - and then watched the crowd arrive.

Mr Jäger frantically called his superiors, but they gave no orders either to open the gate - or to open fire to stop the crowd. With only a handful of guards facing hundreds of angry citizens, force would have been of little use.

"People could have been injured or killed even without shots being fired, in scuffles, or if there had been panic among the thousands gathered at the border crossing," he told Der Spiegel.

"That's why I gave my people the order: Open the barrier!"

Thousands flowed through, celebrating and crying, in scenes beamed around the world. Many climbed the wall at Berlin's Brandenburg gate, chipping away at the wall itself with hammers and pickaxes.

A turbulent year had reached a climax.”

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To me, the real heroes were the ones that rushed through unprepared but did so to gain their freedom by stepping over the line to create what they wanted – freedom. They didn’t hesitate, that half million people.

But here we are today; we know its coming. What will we ourselves do? Will we be heroes or continue to stand behind the line and await others to create for us, the same as we have been doing our entire life?

I hope we all know what we ourself wish to see first.I have always heard “Be ashamed to die until you have won a victory for mankind.”

Well, now is our chance.

What will you decide to do? Just sit back and see what happens, or prepare now to run across that line and win a victory for mankind?