The wall that was: An East Berlin citizen (middle) embracing a West Berlin woman while an East German border soldier watched at the border checkpoint of Invalidenstrasse after the opening of the East German border in Berlin on Nov 10,1989. Germany marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today. — Reuters
TODAY marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, when Communist East Germany decided to allow its people to move freely to West Berlin.
To Cold War warriors, the Wall’s collapse marked symbolically the end of the Iron Curtain that separated the Soviet Union, its allies and the rest of Europe.
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