“On this day in 1989, brave men and women of East and West Germany teamed up to bring down a wall that has risen as a symbol of repression and bankrupt socialism for more than a quarter century,” the Trump press service said in a press release from the White House .
At the same time, Trump criticized the authorities of the GDR and the countries of the socialist bloc, which, according to him, oppressed the peoples of their countries.
“On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I congratulate the German people on the tremendous achievements he has achieved in uniting his country and rebuilding East Germany,” the American president wrote.
Earlier, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in an interview with Der Spiegel, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, called the organizers of the August putsch guilty of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On November 9, 1989, the GDR government lifted restrictions on communications between the territories of the republic and West Berlin, a special political unit that, after the Second World War, was under the control of the Anglo-French-American military contingent.
More details in the material RT.