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The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago this night...


















Twenty five years ago, on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. East German authorities opened the border between East and West Berlin and the door to the fall of Communism across Eastern Europe. Stories of what happened in the lives of some of those who emerged ‘through the wall’ from half a century of isolation in one of those countries, Albania, are told in ‘Christ and the Kalashnikov’ and ‘The Silencer’. A little more can be found by reading on...

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Published on November 09, 2014 10:10 Tags: albania, berlin-wall, checkpoint-charlie, communism, eastern-europe