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History Short: What Was the Berlin Wall?
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August 13, 2024
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0:59Now PlayingOn August 13, 1961, the Soviet occupiers of East Berlin tired of unhappy citizens of the communist “workers’ paradise” defecting to the West via West Berlin and erected a barbed wire fence that would become infamous as “The Berlin Wall.”
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