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August 13, 1961: The Wall
Potsdamerplatz
“Checkpoint Charlie”
Brandenberg Gate (from the East)
The Wall (in the East)













Who are you looking at?
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Paragraph assignment: “If Marx was an archaeopteryx, would that make Lenin his bird?”

House on the Embankment



Stalin: The Myth
Stalin: Reality
Stalin’s death mask, Gori, Georgia
Nikita Khrushchev
Stasi
“On the watch”
Abteilung für Damenschuhe im Warenhaus Centrum
Luxury Living
Trabis
Kleingarten
Happy children in East Berlin!
The inconceivable happens
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The impossible happens
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What did not happen.
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Gorbachev has big news for all communists
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Gorbachev tells East German party chief Erich Honecker that he has run out of time
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Boris Yeltsin Triumphant
Putin in Command
Meeting with world leaders
Putin ripped and riding
Ready for war