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The Berlin Wall goes east
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DIVIDED: The west side of the Berlin Wall, pictured in 1986
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THOSE who travel here to Berlin will no doubt not only spot the incredible — or on occasion pretty awful — street art around the city, but also visit at least one of the three surviving sections of the Berlin Wall, the structure that politically divided the city for 28 years between 1961 and 1989.
For some, a visit to the wall is accompanied by a tour of what’s known as the Berlin Wall Museum, right next to Checkpoint Charlie.
If one were to visit this museum, you would emerge from it not necessarily knowing a great deal about the complexities of what led to the building of the wall.
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