When I travÂeled to East Berlin in 1988, my first time as a youngÂster, I read reports of a split between the hardÂline East GerÂman regime and the openÂing SoviÂet govÂernÂment. But nobody realÂly paid much attenÂtion to that news. Less than a year latÂer, the Iron CurÂtain and the Berlin Wall would be gone, all of it. Above, you can watch footage that shows how East GerÂmans expeÂriÂenced that moment, and here, courÂtesy of @courosa, you can find a series of vivid hisÂtorÂiÂcal images that comÂmemÂoÂrate the events that took place 20 years ago.
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