The wall, which separated East and West Germany, stood for 28 years before it was torn down in 1989.
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00:0035 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, reuniting Germans who were divided between East and
00:06West for nearly three decades.
00:09As Berliners poured through holes in the concrete to reach the other side, the iron curtain
00:14that separated Russia from the Western allies was shattered.
00:17But since then, the separation has come back, driven by Russian President Vladimir Putin
00:22and his dreams.
00:24He calls the loss of the other countries that then became independent as the greatest trauma
00:32and tragedy of the Russian history.
00:35So there you can already see that in his world, in his ideology, he would love to have this
00:42separation again.
00:46And I'm guessing for him, it's about separation, but also just about the complete power over
00:53people in a military way, but also in an economic way, and just, yeah.
01:01Less than a thousand kilometers east of Berlin, at the border of Europe, new walls are being
01:07built.
01:08Poland is fortifying its border with Belarus to stop illegal migrants who, according to
01:14Warsaw, are being used by Belarus and Moscow to destabilize the West.
01:21I would just have wished that Poland could have come up with another way, because the
01:28symbol of building a wall again, of splitting Europe apart, basically, and that's what it
01:33is in the end, it's just not the right sign of where we should go as Europe, as a European
01:40community, because it's a humanitarian catastrophe for the refugees, for the migrants that are
01:46stuck there in the forest with no infrastructure, no food, no humanitarian aid whatsoever.
01:55This year, people in the German capital will celebrate the fall of the wall with the slogan
02:00Uphold Freedom.
02:02But being free to move from country to country is a privilege that many do not have.
02:10But it's not just European borders that separate the East from the West.
02:15Countries from within the EU have been strengthening external borders, and with anti-migrant rhetoric
02:20continuing to rise, the question stands if walls will always be there to separate people.
02:26Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.