Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 09, 1989
November 08, 1989
November 10, 1989
Transcript:
Charlie Brown stands at the principal's desk and says, "Yes, sir, it's good to be back in school again . . I tried to make my dog happy, but all I did was make him sick . . ."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown asks, "You haven't met my dog, have you, sir?"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown says, "Snoopy, this is our new principal . ."<BR><BR> Snoopy stands dressed as The World War I Flying Ace. Charlie Brown says, It'd be nice, sir, if you returned his salute . ."<BR><BR>
On this day the German Democratic Republic (the stalinist state that was formed out of the Soviet occupation zone after WWII in Germany) collapsed and opened it’s borders. It was also pretty much the beginning of the end of communism in Europe. It would take more than a year (until October 3, 1990) for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland and the German Democratic Republic to be reunified, which also marked the end of the occupation in Germany and formally ended WWII.