For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall stood as a
concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, preventing citizens in
communist East Germany from fleeing to democratic, capitalist West
Berlin. On the night of November 9, 1989, however, East German
authorities suddenly opened the border crossing, and...
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