FULTON -- Winston Churchill gave his famous 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton's Westminister College.

That speech warned about the encroachment of communism, so it seems fitting that students there celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall-which marked the end of communism in Europe.

Students prepared by building eight replica sections of the wall, which traveled around town for people to mark with graffiti.

"This is some interesting graffiti on there; there were no restrictions on what people wrote,” Churchill Museum Director Rob Havers said. “It had to be obscenity-free. Political statements, that sort of comment, everyone was given free reign. It was not only our Westminster students, it was the wider community, too”

Monday night, the sections came together for students to knock down at the exact moment, 6:53 p.m., in 1989 that crowds in Germany started taking down the real wall.

After knocking down the fake wall the students walked a few feet to pass through the largest contiguous section of the actual Berlin Wall in the United States. 

The sections were shaped into a sculpture called ‘Breakthrough’, by Churchill's granddaughter Edwina Sandys.

Some of those who came to the event received pieces of the actual Berlin Wall.

The college says a grant from the German embassy helped pay for the celebration.