The Berlin Wall's collapse still resonates 36 years later

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, arm in arm, celebrating on the Berlin Wall.

The article described the historic shift in world politics that occurred as the Berlin Wall — the blockade between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and democratic-coalition controlled West Berlin — fell on Nov. 9, 1989.