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Published 11/06/2009 by Russian Information Agency Novosti

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Lessons and warnings

Germany's reunification became inevitable that day, although Germany now celebrates it on October 3, the day when the two states reunited in 1990.

The majority of the world's media today present that event simplistically. They write that East Germans, who could no...

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