“The Berlin wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

As quoted in The New York Times (16 June 1989) https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/16/world/a-gorbachev-hint-for-berlin-wall.html
1980s

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