Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
Monday demonstrations in Leipzig (1989)
On the Cold War map as “The Monday demonstrations”
9 Oct 1989 — 70,000 march in Leipzig chanting “Wir sind das Volk”; the order to shoot never comes. Once the state blinks, every square in the GDR fills.
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- Gorbachev and the 1989 revolutions (chapter 11 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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