Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free january red Square Church Bells peal again hear Surprise for the heart a photo Moscow a the Bells of basils Cathedral rang out Over red Square yesterday for the first time since when the atheist soviets clamped Down on the operations of the russian orthodox More than muscovites poured into the vast and streamed past the Kremlin and the mausoleum of soviet founder Vladimir Lenin to gather around the col ored cupolas of basils for sever Al Bell concert son new years its a Surprise for the said a Middle aged woman with a Wistful its like visiting the said Victor a member of the soviet who leaned against a lamp Post listening to the the crowd covered All from toddlers bundled against the cold to elderly women wrapped in tradition Al flowered russian listening aptly to the Bells As they throbbed and occasionally when the scheduled 15minute concert was the crowd clapped until Bell master Ivan Dani Lov continued with two under soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev authorities have dramatically reduced harass ment of religious thou Sands of mosques and other religious which had been converted into cab Bage offices and even a swimming Are being returned to their original basils is still a museum of completed in its brilliantly fanciful onion domes Are a world famous Symbol for the soviet its religious use was reduced in 1922 when it was downgraded from a Cathedral to a and religious thousands of muscovites gather near basils Cathe dral to listen to Bells that had been silent since operations ceased entirely in museum officials while Many soviets Are rediscovering the audience for yesterdays Bell concert reflected the fact that after decades of sup most soviets View religion More with curiosity than with Fer such traditions Are said one lamenting the dec Ades during which the Bells were Lack of bubbly Sobers muscovites by Scott Shane the Baltimore Sun Moscow new years without Cham pagne asked the headline in Miskousky Kom som lets was the articles Indig Nant four correspondents had fanned out across the capital is search of was everywhere the same they at the heavily Chan delivered gastronomy 1 on Gorky Street was Selling Vodka and Cognac to an unruly crowd that feared it might run asked about people in line at the shop responded with Surprise and you kidding one Man theres none now and there wont be by the line at another big Moscow liquor store had but so had their Cham everything else except Mineral water and two soviet soft various reports gave various explanations for the Champagne shortage 500 to 600 busloads a Day of shoppers from the provinces picking Moscow shelves clean boxcars of imported Champagne piling up unloaded in freight Yards a major shortage of Glass bottle whatever the the disappearance of Champagne on the eve of this country biggest no ideological Holiday seemed to capture the mood the trappings of the soviet new with a touch of Are much in huge Blue banners draped around town wish Luck and Success in 1990 to dear heavily decorated Yolk Christ Mas Trees in Newsstands sell 1990 calendars featuring Michael Jackson or an assortment of scantily Clad both re minders of a Border increasingly there Are rides on a troika the traditional russian three horse Sleigh at the exhibit of economic for a few ded Moroz Grandfather the local Santa with his Side kick the Snow can be invited to visit your apart stolen from Christmas but this year the traditions stolen from Christmas after the 1917 revolution Are begin Ning to be stolen Back As a result of the religious resurgence permitted Over the last two lutherans in Estonia and roman catholics in Lithuania and Western Ukraine and baptists in parts of Russia this year celebrated 25 far More and with More official than Ever the russian Ortho Dox is also Likely to draw some of the Energy that previously went into new year there would seem to be a Good Deal to the cold War is officially and president Mikhail Gorbachev is Man of the decade All Over the Western he is also honoured As Patron Saint of the revolutions that have transformed Eastern the View from Here is the big Domestic political Story is Gorbachev outrage at the decision of lithuanian communists to split with the soviet the official press is campaigning with old a shined Strid ency and unanimity against the lithuanian the coordinated attack on the lithuanians suggested that official control of the Media is alive and commenting on the Champagne Makovsky Koms molets by the Well note in in the stores during these renew year Days were not to be found Many goods that previously were by no Means in Short a few coveted such As Coffee and have appeared in unusual abundance for the shoppers agree that most vegetables and Many other items Are harder to find than at any time in the past two one reason for the skimpy supplies in officials is that More and More sought after foods Are being diverted from the regular food network and sold at the an Engineer at a Moscow construction Institute said a Las minute Sale of delicacies at work had rescued his family new year for Sale to employees he was imported smoked imported Chick instant red caviar and even Cham world crashes berlins party West Berlin a a cacophony of saxophones and fire crackers pierced the air Early yesterday and fireworks illuminated the Berlin Wall As tens of thousands of people from East and West celebrated new years tens of thousands poured in both directions through the newly opened Brandenburg Gate each and thousands More scaled the Wall and tumbled into the other Germany As grinning Border guards watched their a photo in a revival of the citywide Street party that erupted when the Berlin Wall opened Young people scrambled atop the Divide to take in the scene on both Bobbing and rocking to the erratic rhythm of the concert without a conductor at the Brandenburg hammers clanged against chisels As hundreds mined the Wall for Sou after some scaffolding supporting an outdoor projection screen near the Brandenburg Gate collapsed under the weight of revel killing a Man and injuring 135 East Germany official adn news Agency seven Dyseven of them were admitted to it adn said drunks and a carpet of broken Glass from Champagne bottles hindered Rescue in other Border police arrested 68 Neo nazi activists Over night after they tried to stage illegal West germans and Uta celebrate on East Side o Brandenburg authorities in both German states had formed joint patrols to prevent disturbances threatened by righting a West Berlin counterculture group had appealed to berliners on both sides of the crumbling Divide to bring musical instruments and inspiration to the Battle scarred for a concert to fete the first new years in four decades that germans have celebrated the Wall is open for the first time in my we want to celebrate along with everyone said Hansjuerge who travelled from the Ruhr Valley City of Dort Mund with eight friends to spend the Holiday in cold and misty at fireworks filled the Midnight sky Over the Brandenburg the soot stained Monument was swathed in smoke As Young people from around the world Cla Mored atop the surrounding Wall and scaled even the tarnished Bronze Chariot that crowns the columned since East German authorities began punching holes in the Graffiti splattered Concrete that had severed Berlin since the Wall has be come More a Bridge than a tour buses from throughout Europe shuttled thousands to the heart of the a stretch of pock marked Wall Between the Branden Burg Gate in East Berlin and a towering Christmas tree on the West tourists filled every hotel and restaurant to capacity on both sides of the Wall and jammed streets and parking lots with Impromptu Par rented chisels enterprising youth like 15yearold saliva Mussa hawked chips of the Wall for up to the equivalent of 136 West berliners rented out Ham mers and and the West Ger Man government operated a Mobile information Booth for any East Ger Man visitors considering relocation in the Border police said they could not even give a rough estimate of the numbers crossing Between the two she Moscow had 40 cathedrals and their Bells gave the City its we lost our added Victor who brought his Tod to the whipping in the wind in the Back ground were Bright Blue and White banners containing snowflakes and Holiday new years Deco rations this year were remarkably free of the usual political democracy Loving poles party As prices skyrocket Warsaw Reuter poles faced a grim round of Price increases yesterday after unprecedented Rev Elry in Warsaw celebrating the end of communism and the birth of a new democratic thousands of people had gathered in the streets outside the Royal Castle on new years and at the stroke of Midnight ushered in the 1990s with fireworks and scenes of rejoicing not seen in More than 40 years of communist this is the first time we can celebrate this Day with such Joy and enthused a Tipsy television the Solidarity led government wrapped up the communist Era two Days constitutional reforms stripped the communist party of its leading declared Poland a democracy ruled by Law and restored the country pre second world War the Republic of its our first free Holiday season since a polish journalist said Poland lost its Liberty in 1939 with the German invasion that started the second world War and soviet troops imposed communism on the country As the War but a devaluation of the polish zloty against the Dollar at the official Exchange rate and the draconian Price increases rammed Home the hardships poles face with the return to the Price of Central heating and hot water quintuple Coal Rose 600 per gasoline and Telephone prices Dou postage Rose 150 per cent and train and bus fares jumped 250 per the increases Are part of a bold plan by finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz to make Poland the first Eastern european country to switch to a capitalist economic sys tem while imposing harsh austerity to curb baits begin break with Moscow Moscow a the Baltic republics of Latvia and Lithuania started their much debated eco nomic Independence programs taking control of tories and other elements of their economies from Moscow Bureau Estonia underscored the potential of the Reform with a contest to design its new the the newspaper Rab Ochaya Tri Buna said the Krona will be introduced next year and planners tentatively expect it to be fixed to the soviet Ruble at a on Toone rate for inter regional but they plan for the Krona to float against the Ruble for tourist Pur the newspaper details of the economic Independence plans were still being Ham mered out As officials of the republics and Moscow argued which Powers would be the with their More re cent experience with capitalism than the rest of the soviet favor much More drastic economic reforms than including legalization of private the three republics were Independent countries until they were annexed by the soviet Union in 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