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Turning around in Berlin is a winning bet. Looking in any whimsical perspective will take us back to a mystery. If you like hidden cities, you must come to Berlin.
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On the night of November 9, 1989, Andrea was with her family in the living room of her small apartment block when her phone suddenly rang. Her mother rushed to answer the call and, after a silence that seemed eternal, she said slowly: "Turn on the television."
Following the order of his wife, Andrea's father approached the device and, a couple of seconds after turning it on, he collapsed on the floor and began to cry.
Andrea, who was only 13 years old at the time, remembers that after hearing the news of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she had an uncontrollable urge to take a train downtown to experience that historic moment. "She was very young and had a free and revolutionary spirit," she recalls.
The wall of shame, as it was known in much of the West, or of anti-fascist protection, as the government of the German Democratic Republic called it, was the best-known symbol of the division of the country that after its reunification has become in the European economic engine.
30 years of reforms, master plans, young people who dress up or stick to the new convenient fashions have passed to feel like one more, as Andrea wanted.
Berlin is today a puzzle city, a fragmented city that completes a complex diagram. There is a Berlin in many Berlins. And among all of them, just the one that can cause us rejection, or admiration.
This complexity of feelings has transformed it into one of the most interesting capitals, in which the history of the world and of the people has been intertwined with such intensity as has happened in few places.
In the symbolic, the battles won by the losers can be detected. There is no contradiction, it is the very inheritance of subsistence. It is the crying of Andrea's father colliding with her hope.
Simplifying, half the city has folded in on itself to join the other half city. Makeup, trends, investments, politics and desires have come together to ensure that, as in a Kafka tale, no one remembers the undesirable past.
But if there is one thing, it is oblivion. In the vast masses, the curiosity of the last tourist and the nostalgia of the oldest Berliners persist the last layers of truth.
What is worth more, the obvious, the expected, the repetitive? Or those incunabula shelves on the corners that are disappearing, the neon signs, the little cowboy?
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🔎 I am Gustavo Llusá, Argentine, after traveling for several years in more than 60 countries, I settled in Latvia where I got married and learned to know another way of life, on the other side of the map.
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