“I was in Moscow. It was night. I was asleep. Very early in the morning.

It was the ambassador who phoned to inform me, and I said: ‘It was to be expected,’ because the Germans had already made openings in the wall.

But since it wasn’t enough they finished by breaking it. 

Three million people went from the GDR side to the FDR side and vice versa during the first three days.

One can understand that a nation that was separated for forty years, when people couldn’t see their families, it was a real drama.”

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