'It's always the small people who change things'

On this day, November 9, 1989 the people of East Berlin crossed into West Berlin at the Bornholmer Straße border crossing and so ended the wall that had  divided Berlin since August 13, 1961.

In January 1989 the GDR's boss, Erich Honecker said: "The Wall will still exist in fifty and even one hundred years, if the reasons for its existence have not been removed." 

Wise words from French film director, Luc Besson:

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.