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Importance
(The Boston Globe)
Illustration depicting the end of the Cold War.
The fall of the Berlin Wall’s lasting importance is that it stood as the symbol of the end of the division of Europe and the Cold War and of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the years that followed the fall of the wall, Europe began to grow as mostly a communist-free continent. When the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified as a democracy, it opened the possibility of the idea of democracy in Europe and the Soviet Union. This sparked many liberations of several Eastern and Central European countries. The fall of the wall stood as the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the Cold War. After the Soviet Union fell and the Cold War ended, Europe was finally “whole and free” again (McBride).