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Rock and roll's part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain is told from the perspective of rock | dG1fYjJhSlYtekJjMTQ

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00:00Could it ever kind of dawn on you that you were part of a movement that helped bring

00:13down one of the most powerful empires in human history?

00:17What empire is that?

00:18The Soviet Union.

00:19No.

00:20Wow.

00:21Yeah, I'm sure Iron Curtain might not have come down had it not been for rock and roll.

00:34Let's go!

00:35Rock and roll is freedom.

00:36Yeah, rock and roll.

00:38Did the wall come down?

00:40I could never imagine.

00:44You can't stop people from enjoying music.

00:49Rock and roll is freedom.

00:50Rebellion.

00:51Freedom.

00:52And so you can feel in the room here, this energy coming like that.

00:56It's the truth in one power group.

00:59There's no stronger force in the world than music.

01:02Nothing.

01:03Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.

01:06Ich bin ein Zerlin.

01:12Lost against the Cold War.

01:14Rock and roll music, books about political freedom, and the Bible were all viewed by

01:20the tyrants in charge of the Soviet Union as subversive.

01:24And you know what?

01:26They were right.

01:30Everybody on the world wants to be free.

01:33It was a tumultuous time.

01:36All the musicians were doing everything they could to get out of Vietnam.

01:39We just wanted to rock.

01:41We are, we are survivors.

01:45With a lot of liberty to tell us the world can see.

01:49Solidarity pushing Poland and all that together in a youth revolution caused the whole thing

01:54to unravel.

01:55The Iron Curtain is not impenetrable.

01:57Our music was bleeding into them.

02:00The music was so incredible.

02:03Rock and roll shrank the world.

02:05Things are changing.

02:11Explosion.

02:18Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

02:21Explosion.

Rockin' the Wall | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer

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