Let's move back in time now. March 1946. Half a year since the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill first mentioned the political term Iron Curtain, an imaginary border that divided Europe into two blocks that of the Western countries that followed the capitalist system of the United States, and that of the socialists aligned under the influence of the Soviet Union.

15 years after Churchill's proclamation, the Berlin Wall was build, a construction of more than 120 kilometres that would separate the city, and in fact, the 2 Germanies for almost 30 years. While the lives of the citizens of that divided Germany were adapting to the new stage on each of the two sides, Scorpions was formed in Hannover. It was a band that eventually became the most popular and international rock group in the Federal Republic of Germany. Its vocalist, Klaus Meine, wrote the song Wind of Change in September 1989 following an unexpected event that happened at a concert they did at a rock festival in Moscow. At that concert, there were red army soldiers standing with their backs to the stage to provide security, but unexpectedly when the band members came out to play, the soldiers turned towards them and joining the effusive welcome that the audience gave the musicians, the soldiers threw their caps in the air in a spontaneous salutation. Meine was convinced that what they had just witnessed was an unequivocal sign that something was happening. And, then, he began to compose Wind of Change, a theme that was claiming for a world of peace that united peoples and that left behind the divisions and tensions of the Cold War.

The song's lyrics reflected its author's hope that the change he was talking about would become a reality. What he could not imagine is that, that very same month of November, a peaceful revolution would bring down the Berlin Wall, and that his song would become the unofficial anthem of the fall of this symbol of the Iron Curtain, and therefore part of the soundtrack to one of the historic moments of the end of the twentieth century.

Since then I'm a big fan of the Turkish culture.