The Berlin Wall: A Street Party With Sledgehammers The Berlin Wall has become a symbol of the Cold War. It encircled West Berlin, separating it from the Sovietcontrolled East Berlin, placed to try and stop the flood of skilled professionals leaving to the West. Multiple US presidents had penned speeches about tearing down the wall, to no effect. But the Wall did fall. As the USSR underwent massive reforms and the Velvet Revolution was underway, East Germany was undergoing its own reform. And one clerical oversight in a press conference will destroy the Wall for good.

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