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Khrushchev begins building Berlin Wall to keep East Germans in
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War
Place
Germany
Date
1961
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"Khrushchev insisted the wall was built to prevent spying by the West, but in reality it was designed to stop the exodus of those disaffected with communism." [Furtado: 1001 Days]
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