The wall at the Brandenburg Gate,
East Berlin, so dark, so grey, so hopeless.
This was in January 1988. Westerners used to take a peak onto the Lenin Allee on the opposite side.
The wall was solid then, forever it seemed.
"He who comes too late is punished by life" Mikhail Gorbatchev
1 comment:
So dark, so grey ... . indeed.
I shall never forget the greyness.
As a visitor, circa 1980, I crossed at Checkpoint Charlie for a single day .
That hopelessness was a cloud which stayed with me for a very long time.
Jjj
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