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- proper noun A wall constructed by the
German Democratic Republic to keepEast Germans from escaping toWest Berlin . - noun politics Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a
border , e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
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Examples
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, in other words, was to lead to the fall of all the smaller walls that prevented the free flow of goods, investments, and armaments.
John Feffer: The Age of Activism John Feffer 2011
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As a child of the Cold War, for me the Berlin Wall was the symbolic and real dividing line between them and us... the free and the not free... hope and fear.
John Milewski: The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, or Something Completely Different? John Milewski 2010
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As a child of the Cold War, for me the Berlin Wall was the symbolic and real dividing line between them and us ... the free and the not free ... hope and fear.
John Milewski: The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, or Something Completely Different? 2010
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As a child of the Cold War, for me the Berlin Wall was the symbolic and real dividing line between them and us ... the free and the not free ... hope and fear.
The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, or Something Completely Different? 2010
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The Berlin Wall was the visible symbol of the gulag, the pogrom, everything deprave and inhumane of the collectivism and the Soviet Union.
The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think the issue is that the Berlin Wall was a tangible symbol of both communist oppression and the divide between the free world and the communist world.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Reflections on the Fall of the Berlin Wall 2009
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But the end of the Cold War and the Fall of the Berlin Wall was a direct result of a new more openminded Soviet leader, a collapsing soviet econmy, a persistant US president/administration and the desire for freedom from the people living behind that wall (glasnost, perestroika)
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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As a child of the Cold War, for me the Berlin Wall was the symbolic and real dividing line between them and us ... the free and the not free ... hope and fear.
John Milewski: The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, or Something Completely Different? 2009
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I too thought about the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, which is even in my vid a brief flash of people dancing on/around it.
From Russia, with Love Fresca 2009
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Then again they still think Castro is hot; they still have not added up all the deaths that can be attributed to the Che; some even think that the fall of the Berlin Wall was a tragedy.
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