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  • The Berlin Wall was built to keep people from Eastern Berlin escaping to the west. It divided families as well as Germany. It was not something the German people ever wanted.

    When the Soviet Union fell, East Germany made the decision to get rid of the wall. They tore it down and allowed people to travel more or less freely over the border with the West. Within a couple of years, they reunified cash-strapped East Germany with the more prosperous West Germany and they became one nation again therfore president Ronald ragon made a speech to taere down the Berlin wall

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