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Prague Communists Called for Wall to Open on November 8, 1989
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago, even the hard-line Czechoslovak Communist leaders called for the opening of the German border, according to documents from high-level archives in Berlin, Bonn and Prague published for the first time in English by the National Security Archive.
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