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Berlin : Germany | 19 days ago  
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  • Former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and German publisher Friede Springer (R) unveil a bust of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Springer publishing house in Berlin
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It was the climax of peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe that would pave the way for German reunification and the spread of democracy across the continent. The abrupt end to Berlin's three decades of physical division triggered great upheaval and change in the German capital that continues...
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