20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8349742.stm
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Celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall are reaching their climax. Leaders from around the world have gathered at the Brandenburg Gate for a commemorative concert. Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked across a bridge that was the first crossing opened between East and West on 9 November 1989. The wall's fall led to the collapse of Communist power, German reunification and the Cold War's end.
Communist East Germany erected the 155-km (96-mile) concrete barrier in 1961 to encircle West Berlin and prevent citizens from fleeing into the capitalist enclave.
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The 20 years ago since the end of Europe under one flag, but who says history doesn't repeat itself?