For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany ...

A famous 1990 mural painted by Dmitri Vrubel on the East Berlin Wall depicts prominent socialists Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker locked in a passionate kiss, an image drawn from a 1979 photograph.

Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East Berlin to West Berlin, the Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that ...