During the 28 years mnogokilometrovaya wall dividing Berlin into two parts, was a symbol of the Cold War and the «iron curtain». The wall was built in 1961, to residents of the GDR does not cross to the West. A lot of people trying to climb over it, had been killed. In January 1989, East German leader Erich Honekker (Erich Honecker) stated that the wall downtime even a hundred years. But, fortunately, this prediction did not come true - the fall of that year, the border between East Germany and West Germany was opened, and the next year the wall was destroyed.

In 1990 in Berlin came to 118 artists from 22 countries, whose aim was razukrasit remaining piece of a length 1.3 km. This surviving portion of the wall is now called the East Gallery and is a real museum in the open air. Tourists especially like pictures of the painting, which shows a break through the wall of East «Zaporozhets», car «Trabant», and tseluyuschiesya Brezhnev and Honekker. But now many graffiti are in deplorable condition: Eighteen years of rain, snow, in a polluted atmosphere and the paintings of lovers to meet their city walls «tags» made its case. «If we do not otrestavriruem the wall now, it will be very late», - said Kani Alavi (Kani Alavi), a member of the Association of Artists of East Galleries. Therefore, recently, it was decided to save the wall. The project is worth 2.2 million euros. The organizers managed to find more than ninety authors, participated in painting the walls. If the creators of graffiti have died or can not be found, the Association hire other artists to create exact copies of paintings.

Organizers hope that the East Gallery will be able to restore to 9 November 2009. That day will be celebrated 20 years since the day when the Berlin wall was opened and the passage of thousands of residents rushed the GDR to West Berlin.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: bbc.co . uk , artinvestment.ru