The 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War

30 years after the end of the Cold War

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In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the end of the East-West Cold War era, in the Czech capital Prague, the national car "Trabant" used when the former East Germans escaped to the west gathered, and an event to look back on at that time It was done.

The Trabant is an old East German national car that was produced from the late 1950s until 1991.

In September 1989, just before the end of the East-West Cold War, a large number of East Germans fled to the West German embassy in Prague, the capital of neighboring Czechoslovakia, in order to escape to the west. It was.

The event, which led to the West German government's acceptance of the people, was later assessed as having influenced the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.

On the 28th, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of this event, “Trabant” and other national vehicles were gathered in front of the German Embassy in Prague.

On the car body, stickers and decorations with the word “DDR” meaning Old East Germany were left as they were, and tourists gathered in the photos.

At that time, a man who had fled from East Germany to Prague looked back 30 years ago, saying, “I saw the speech of the foreign minister of West Germany on TV and thought I had no chance to escape now.”