As far-right AfD wins big in east, Germany is still voting along Cold War lines
Even though the eastern and western parts of Germany were reunified into the single sovereign nation of Germany in 1990, the ...
What it was like witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall
When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...
German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall
Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD ...
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The creation of the Berlin Wall
Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...
Trump has the opportunity to make a deal that will protect Ukraine’s sovereignty
When the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, the situation was very different from the situation Russian leader ...
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German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall
The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 ... of revolutions in the countries of the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union eventually collapsed in 1991.