In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down after nearly 30 years of separating East Berlin from the West.
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In 1961, in effort to keep the citizens of Eastern Berlin from relocating to the West, the USSR erected two concrete walls across 87 miles of Berlin, effectively segregating the East from the West and separating family, friends, and neighbors from one another. Between these two walls was a barren wasteland known as the"death strip" where armed guards monitored for defectors and many were killed attempting to flee East Germany.
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