Published 23:40 IST, November 9th 2019

Google Doodle celebrates 30th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall

Google Doodle is celebrating its 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall in Germany with a doodle that took the pictures of breaking down boundaries.

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Google is celebrating its 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin wall with a doodle that took pictures of demolition of wall that separated many families. A Berlin-based guest artist Max Gur created doodle that depicts a man and a woman embracing each or walking over wall that was brought down. This moment signaled simultaneous end of Cold War and beginning of German reunification.

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Google celebrates 30th anniversary

According to Google, Gur said that its a privilege to have worked on subject. He drew inspiration for artwork from memories and old photographs of his parents who resided in Berlin 30 years ago and witnessed fall of Berlin wall. He said that people often fight border walls all over world, some live in divided or separated countries while some of m flee from ir home countries because y don't have any choice.

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Demolition of wall sparked a series of events

Google put up a statement about when Wall came down. An official's hasty statement caused many to have mistaken belief that y would be able to travel freely from East Germany to West Germany. Google's statement furr said that within a few hours a huge number of crowd gared at wall outnumbering border crossing guards. He also ded that officer-in-charge of Bornholmer Street checkpoint ordered his superiors to open gate. word spre quickly and within next few days two million Germans crossed border with many of m singing, dancing, and toasting start of a new era and ors began physically pull apart wall.

Berlin wall was established on August 13, 1961, and separated East and West Berlin with barbed wire and concrete structure. Its demolition sparked a series of events that led to reunion of Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic.

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12:03 IST, November 9th 2019