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Sunday will mark the 25th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a moment that was pivotal in the collapse of communism. A nine mile-long line of balloons along the former border between West and East Germany will be lit up and released early Sunday evening, around the same time that an announcement by a communist official set off the chain of events that brought down the wall in 1989. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, will open a remodeled museum at the site, where a section of the wall is preserved. “Even today when I walk through the Brandenburg Gate, there’s a residual feeling that this wasn’t possible for many years of my life, and that I had to wait 35 years to have this feelingo f freedom," she said last week. “That changed my life.”