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For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down ... In the ...

BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East Berlin is a city under siege. Germans recall 1953 revolt BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- Eight years ago this summer the Soviet zone of Germany exploded into ...

After the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989, more than one hundred international artists congregated here, painting murals that depicted the world's joyous and optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold ...

Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people whose parents unearthed their Jewishness, bequeathing to their children a ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk shipyards”. As to his presence in the celebrations he said “I am a politician who played an important role ...

The wall was constructed 28 years earlier to separate the communist-controlled East, from the capitalist West of Berlin. As Selina and Ivan reports, historians say it's collapse marked a ...