The Berlin Wall: Then and now — 30 years later
Nov. 9, 2019, will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which quickly led to the collapse of the communist East German government. Revolutions across other communist countries of the East bloc soon followed. The Berlin Wall, built by the communist authorities of East Germany, stood from 1961 until 1989 and prevented East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin. At least 136 people, many of them shot dead by East German border guards, were killed trying to escape. (Getty Images/Yahoo News) Drag the slider across each pair of ...
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