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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
You think history’s big moments come wrapped in neat packages and master plans? Think again. The fall of the Berlin Wall wasn’t some grand political coup — it was a bureaucratic mess, a press conference gone sideways, and a crowd of people who just wouldn’t take no for an answer. Mary Elise Sarotte’s "The Collapse" pulls back the curtain on how one of the 20th century’s most iconic events was, in fact, a colossal accident.
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