Very moving BBC Radio 4 documentary on Winds of Change how it came to be written, impact on people’s lives, interwoven with East Berlin and fall of Berlin Wall, and hopes of people in Soviet Union.
Meant a lot to me as at Checkpoint Charlie in May, walked along a stretch of the Berlin Wall, was in East Berlin.
Also Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions a friend.
Had me in tears.
A pity BBC did not play song in full, spine chilling.
For me chilling to walk along the Berlin Wall, to visit Checkpoint Charlie.
Inspiration for Winds of Change was a peace concert in Moscow, and Perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev.
When the Berlin Wall fell, people across Europe had hope.
Now we have a thuggish state in Russia headed by Vladimir Putin, rise of Fascism across Europe, political show trials in Spain.
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