This year marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the de facto end of the Cold War. In celebration of the occasion, Google released a special video doodle, outlining the various places around the world where pieces of the wall stand today.
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The doodle features music from composer Nils Frahm, who says that while he was too young to understand the significance of the wall’s fall when it came down, he “had a very strong sense that life was different now–and that different was better”.
“A quarter-century later,” he adds, “it is our obligation to tell this story to all those who couldn’t be there, who could not feel the spark of the peaceful revolution and, more importantly, who are fortunate enough not to know the feeling of an incarcerated, divided existence, trapped behind concrete walls. It is a story that demands to be told today, and for generations to come”.
