In Washington, stored "fragments of the totalitarian system." Video

Fragment of the Berlin Wall. Photo: Facebook

Freedom Park in the suburbs of Washington has been abandoned by “shards of the totalitarian system.” Until recently, a decapitated part of the Lenin monument and a part of the destroyed Berlin Wall were exhibited in the open air in the park. Now these exhibits have acquired a new home on Pennsylvania Avenue in the very center of the American capital, says “Voice of America«.

In the Museum of Journalism and News, under the Lenin Monument and a part of the Berlin Wall with a watchtower, an entire floor is allocated. Here, these monuments are carefully guarded, and their hands can not be touched. For those who want to touch history, there is a fragment of the Berlin Wall in the hall.

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“Note that every visitor to this exhibition wants to touch the wall and thereby experience the time when freedom came to millions of people,” says Karri Kristoffersen, director of collections at the Museum of Journalism and News.

Washington is the largest part of the wall exposed outside of Berlin. To preserve this historical object for posterity, restorers cover parts of the wall and graffiti with an invisible film.

The eastern part of the wall was gray, devoid of signs of life, while the western part was painted with graffiti, and more. There is oppression, here there is freedom.

“This stark difference helps our young visitors understand why the fall of the Berlin Wall meant so much,” says the director.

In another part of the hall, a pen is kept under glass, of which President 25 of December 1991 of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree on resigning from office. Oddly enough, but the pen belonged to CNN American journalist Tom Johnson.

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“The Soviet pen did not write, and Gorbachev borrowed a pen from an American. Tom Johnson was simply in the right place at the right time. He covered the process of transfer of power to the first president of Russia. After Gorbachev signed the document, Johnson asked for his pen back. He recently donated this pen to the museum,” says the museum director.

The museum also houses a decapitated monument to Lenin, who looked just like that after the collapse.

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