Although this is not the exact image seen in the text on page 1036, it resembles the same thing. It is a picture of the falling of the Berlin wall. In the text it actually has a person on top of the part falling, taking it down. I obviously knew that the fall of the Berlin Wall meant that the wall stopping refugees from East Germany to West Germany meant that there would no longer be the wall to divide it but, I never pictured that this is how they took it down. It was probably a very joyous day for the West Germans but I wasn't aware that a crowd would be surrounding it and that someone would physically have to take it down.
In the picture it also shows the graffiti on the wall. The graffiti probably said some very hateful things for those who were against the division of Germany. I guess, its just not how i had always pictured it, thats why it was such a surprise when I came across the image.
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