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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Eastern europe day 8


This is part of the original Berlin Wall. It's all fenced up and so you can't touch it. The way the soviets put up the car is amazing. They put it up pretty much in one day. If you see the map of how long the wall was, you'll be amazed how they did it. They secretly made pre-fabricated sections of the wall in factories near the wall. Apparently the news of the possibility of a wall being built leaked out days before the wall came out and something like 3 million people crossed into West Berlin before the wall came up and split the city into two and separated families for about 2 decades.

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