27th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 05: A woman poses for a photo in front of the "Kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker painting" on the 27th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany on November 5, 2017. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Berlin Wall had the length of 156,4 kilometers and was built to prevent the fleeing from East Berlin to the West which kept being a symbol for Cold War to this day. (Photo by Cuneyt Karadag/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)