30 Years After Collapse of Berlin Wall, Polish ‘Solidarity’ Co-founder Has Strong Warning to the Free World

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall. Gerard Malie/AFP via Getty Images

Nov. 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the unification of West and East Germany under NATO.

The symbol of the Iron Curtain divided the world into two blocs: the free world and the communist bloc, and was dismantled by a spontaneous act of the people living in East Germany, ruled at that time by a communist regime.