THREE WALL STORIES, THREE NEWSPAPERS, THREE PHOTOS
By Kevin Stoda, Germany
I decided last weekend to make a trip to Berlin.
On the drive to Berlin from Wiesbaden, I came upon a McDonald's offering a free BILD newspaper (dated October 31, 2009) , with cover stories and photos of 3 aging men who are intrinsically intertwined in the popular myths about the collapse of communism and the opening of the Wall in Berlin on November 9, 1989. The faces were of Helmut Kohl (called the Unification Chancellor by many), George Herbert Walker Bush ( the former US President and ex-CIA chief, who made one of his unusually good moves in foreign policy by supporting German unification in 1990), and Michael Gorbachev (renowned as the architect of a new Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, i.e. through his leadership as final Soviet Premier in the era called Perestroika by modern European historians).
http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/topics/vaeter-der-einheit/kohl-bush-gorbatschow.html
The BILD Zeitung (Newspaper) is the most-read tabloid in Europe, thanks to its many bare-breasted beauties scattered throughout its bountiful pages. The paper is owned by the Axel Springer Verlag, and used to be the bastion of what Americanologists see as Germany's equivalent to the USA's FOX-NEWS-type culture of readers and consumers.
Founded in the middle of the Cold War, "[f]rom the outset, the editorial drift [of BILD] was unabashedly conservative and nationalist. BILD had called the East German government simply by the name "Soviet Occupation Zone for decades
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild
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