It's almost the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall; here is an interesting tidbit from the Jewish Chronicle (UK), it seems that one Irene Runge heard from the Rebbe a prediction that the Berlin Wall would come down and that there would be an influx of Russian Jewry into Germany.
Irene Runge grew up in East Berlin, daughter of American ex-pat socialists. She remembers the Jewish community as deadly quiet before the Wall came down. “There were only funerals,” she recalls. But during a book promotion trip to New York in March 1989, Ms Runge was introduced to “the Rebbe” — Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson — “and he told me the Berlin Wall will collapse.
“I thought, how would he know, sitting there in Brooklyn?” Ms Runge had started cultural and social clubs for Jews in East Berlin, and the Rebbe told her to keep on with her work. “Of course — he was wise, and he understood that the Russian Jews would be coming.”
Sure enough, “all of a sudden they have to build kindergartens and schools and have bar mitzvahs. Without the Russians, there would be no Jews in Germany”.
Click here for the complete article, the quoted section is at the end.
This story echoes that of Professor Herman Branover. In 1985, the Rebbe asked him to relay a message to his contacts in the Soviet Union that the new leader (this was just after Gorbachev came to the Kremlin) would ultimately bring freedom to the people behind the Iron Curtain. Click here to watch a video of Professor Branover recounting this amazing story (watch the whole thing for a fascinating twist to the story!).