Witnesses to the Berlin Wall
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The Walls Don't Work
There's stillad it'll take a long time for all those years of communism to work. It'll take two generations, possibly more, i think. I was the charman commandant in october at the time of german reunification. And as i said, that feet away from me, sitting in the front row was billy brant, the great governing mare of berlin,. When the wall had been put up, and the tears were pouring down his face. I will never forget that. But walls don't work. They didn't work there, and actually, in the end, they won't work.
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