Walls work both ways
One day you say hooray
The next, you can’t stay
Because walls work both ways
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The photo: Konrad Schumann jumping over the early Berlin Wall.
Initially the Berlin Wall was promoted as keeping West Germans out, but almost as soon as it was erected, it was used to keep East Germans from leaving.
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