Interviu cu Dr. Robert Grünbaum, Director adjunct al Fundației Federale pentru Cercetarea Dictaturii Comuniste din Germania (The democratization of Germany can be considered accomplished in 1990. Interview with Dr. Robert Grünbaum)

Abstract

From 26 to 28 November 2014, within the project “After 25 years. Communism in Eastern Europe", conducted by the Faculty of Political Science from "Petre Andrei" University of Iași, the Institute for the Study of Ideologies and the "Polis" magazine, took place an event called "25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall", organized in partnership with the German Cultural Centre of Iași. The event brought together: the opening exhibition "The wall. A boundary inside Germany" (organized by "The Federal Foundation for the Investigation of Communist Dictatorship" with help from the newspapers "BILD" and "Die Welt"), two conferences, film projections and a concert in memory of the victims of communism, conducted by Ulrich Backofen. Invited to this event, Dr. Robert Grünbaum held the Conference entitled "The peaceful Revolution and the fall of the wall. The GDR in the fall of 1989 ". His presence in Iași was an occasion for an interview about the fall of the Berlin wall and the meaning it had and still has for Germany and for the entire Europe.

Keywords

• Communism
• The Berlin Wall
• dictatorship
• peaceful revolution
• Soviet Union.