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A Trabant East German car crashing through a 1.3km length of the former Berlin Wall, restored as an artwork. Sipa Press / Rex
A Trabant East German car crashing through a 1.3km length of the former Berlin Wall, restored as an artwork. Sipa Press / Rex
1989: the year that determined much of the way we live today
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