1989
December 2009
‘We, the victors of the Cold War, the liberators of the evil empire, could never have accomplished our bloodless triumph without a good measure of idealism’
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November 2009
It was a rare privilege to have a footnote in history at the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the collapse of communism
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November 2009
The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the ultimate display of "people power", but did German reunification work?
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November 2009
Questions that brought down the Berlin Wall: Daniel Johnson recalls the heady night in 1989 when the Cold War ended
Foreign fiction special: Reviews of Javier Marias's and Stieg Larsson's l
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1989
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