Czech PM joins Berlin wall commemoration

Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer will join around 30 heads of state and government in Berlin to commemorate the 20 anniversary of the Berlin Wall on Monday evening. The Czech Prime Minister will take part in a symbolic dismantling of a wall near the Brandenburg Gate. The end of the Berlin Wall signalled the start of the end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the end of the more than 40 year division between East and West. The Czechoslovak Communist regime began to crumble following the suppression of a students’ protest 8 days after the fall of the Berlin Wall.