People walk next to the remains of the Berlin Wall placed as a tourist attraction and memorial site in Berlin. People walk next to the remains of the Berlin Wall placed as a tourist attraction and memorial site in Berlin October 7, 2004. Germany was divided between the capitalist west and the communist east by the Berlin Wall, which stood for 29 years until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 when it was almost completely destroyed. REUTERS/Michael Dalder