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Stjepan Mesić spoke of the significance of the section of the Berlin Wall: “The Fall of the Wall was both a beginning and an end. The beginning of profound changes which would be felt throughout Germany, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We felt as though the model we had at this point in time would not survive.”

The political and social revolutions that took place in Eastern Europe in 1989 also affected the multinational state of Yugoslavia. At this time, the states were made up of Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and also Kosovo and Vojvodina – two regions in Serbia. New conflicts arose in Yugoslavia at the end of the Cold War, which, in the crumbling multinational state, led to war between the autonomous republics and cost tens of thousands of lives.

The unveiling of the Wall segment

© Deutsche Botschaft Zagreb

German businessman, Axel Brauer, donated the 3.6-metre-high and 1.2-metre-wide section of Wall to the German embassy in Zagreb. Croatian graffiti artists Krešimir Golubic and Gordan Orešic had already repainted the section of Wall. The following quote can be seen in German and Croatian: