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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-11 12:45 PM
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50th anniv. of the Berlin Wall. Anyone else miss the good old days?
German chancellor Angela Merkel and president Christian Wulff join hundreds at a memorial marking the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. From the day construction started 50 years ago on 13 August 1961, to its fall on 9 November 1989, at least 136 people were killed trying to get through the wall that divided Berlin. Most were shot by East German border guards. More than 75,000 people were imprisoned for trying to leave East Germany - about 5,000 managed to escape



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/aug/13/berlin-wall-50-years-video
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-11 12:58 PM
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1. I miss 'That Was The Week That Was,'
Edited on Sat Aug-13-11 01:13 PM by HereSince1628
the Berlin Wall I don't miss so much.

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