Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Publication date 07 November 2019 | 21:54 | ICT

The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago this week provided cause for celebration, and not just in Europe. The structure was the most potent physical manifestation of the Cold War, symbolising what Winston Churchill had described (years

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