Every year, on April 24, Armenians honor as many as 1.5 million ethnic Armenians who were killed by Ottoman Turk soldiers between 1915 and 1923 during the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall — 30 Years Later
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that symbolically signaled the end of communism. Between 1917 and 1989, a third of the world’s population lived at some point under a regime that in 72 years produced 100 million deaths, an efficient mass surveillance state apparatus, an all-powerful propaganda system and not much more.