a month later at the demonstration the following monday she joined 130000 people. marching for freedom and democracy by early november their numbers had swelled to half a 1000000 it was now the biggest civil rights movement in the history of east germany and it had become a peaceful revolution that proved unstoppable. by november 9th 1989 the berlin wall was no more. think of the. democratic years commish 4 and to me democracy is not freedom from something i find that freedom to do something life goes by the freedom to participate and have a sane shake in society. and that's nice today as much as it did in 1900. in 1990 east and west germany were reunified from then on the basic law drafted in