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The collapse: the accidental opening of the Berlin Wall

✍ Scribed by Mary Elise Sarotte

Book ID
100227861
Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2014;2015
Tongue
ar-SA
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0465049907

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✦ Synopsis

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city's two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan's famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, β€œMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" But as award-winning historian Mary Sarotte shows in [Title TK] , the opening of the Wall on November 9, 1989 was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government's deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East and West Berlinβ€”these combined to bring about the end of nearly forty years of oppression, fear, and enmity in divided Berlin. When the news broke, Washington and Moscow could...

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