HARD TO BELIEVE IT’S BEEN 25 YEARS: Austin Bay Remembers The Fall of the Berlin Wall. “The Wall’s cement barriers, barbed wire, anti-vehicle obstacles and anti-personnel mine fields were built to keep East Germans inside East Germany. A few hardline left-wing bien-pensants still preach a U.S.-USSR Cold War equivalency. The Wall’s cold facts reveal them for what they are: liars. No surprise — some of them have become Putin apologists.”