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The Cold War Myth of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The reputation held by the Berlin Wall before it was ‘torn down’ twenty years ago was largely a product of propaganda machines. Clearly, it was just another Cold War myth. It played neatly into a Cold War cliché about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny. ‘In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from [...]
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