“Germany launched a project on Friday to shed light on the identities of the hundreds of people killed along its internal Cold War border while trying to flee the communist East. A new list published by the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, marking Berlin’s iconic Cold War border crossing, says the number of people who died trying to flee East Germany was 1,676.” [What kind of idiot would want to leave the workers’ paradise anyway?]
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