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the fall of the berlin wall, 30 years later: let us celebrate anew

The story needs to be told again and again, because those too young to have lived through the Cold War have trouble feeling viscerally the stakes, the danger, and the drama. ..

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berlin wall anniversary: germany marks 30th anniversary of its fall

Although communist leaders remained in power in some Soviet bloc countries after the wall came down, the fall of the 165-mile long barrier marked the physical, political and emotional end to the Cold War in the wake of then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of reforms. . ..

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