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Berlin Wall
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  • "I told him that Africa wasn't going to be saved or won by promoting the poems of Yevtushenko or by telling the people about the wickedness of the Berlin Wall.†   (source)
  • But by the time the Berlin Wall comes down, so have the walls in her academic life, and she has slowly won over most of her colleagues with her sensible demeanor and disarming sociability.†   (source)
  • But the fall of the Berlin Wall had thrown Gorbachev out of power and left him in a precarious financial condition.†   (source)
  • Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Frieder Stephan was a disc jockey on an East German tourist ferry.†   (source)
  • Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Plauen has lost about 10 percent of its population, as people move away in search of a better life.†   (source)
  • To Berliners, whose city is the present capital of Germany and perhaps the future capital of Europe, Plauen is a sleepy backwater that sat for decades on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall.†   (source)
  • Kennedy refused to back down, and a chastened Khrushchev began construction of the Berlin Wall to save face.†   (source)
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