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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991
The Wall goes up
13 Aug 1961 — Overnight, barbed wire seals the last open door between the blocs; concrete follows. A state walling its own people in ends the Berlin crisis — by admitting everything.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — Coexistence and Its Crises in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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