Witnesses to the Berlin Wall
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The Economy Is Not Going to Change
With brineheimsin, you could see it coming, ecause the economy was disastrous. And they talked about, you know, economic advances. A lot of it was fony figures and you kind of knew it. But on the other hand, it just seemed permanent. The wall seemed permanent. i remember a neighbour chatting to me from fromout our block we lived. He had no idea what was 500 yards from his own flat, because that war was there, and the other side was a mystery. So you had the sense this is this is not going to change. It had the air of permanence but you knew the economy was was an achilles heel and was getting
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