Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lutheran Church sources said some marchers in Leipzig shouted, "The Wall must go!"--demanding demolition of the Berlin Wall, symbol of East German repression for three decades...
BERLIN--A half-million East Germans thronged the streets of Leipzig in a hard, cold rain last night to demand free elections and unlimited freedom to travel abroad...
...While East Germans at home protested, mass flight continued. ADN said 23,200 citizens had gone to West Germany since the suspension of exit rules Saturday...
...ignore the issue, Europeans are more visibly concerned. "The whole question," warns Bromke, "could conceivably slip out of everyone's hands but the Germans'." Czechoslovakia's Doudera puts the problem in even starker terms. "All of Germany's neighbors have got to be against reunification," he says. "Once East and West Germany have been unified, what is to stop the Germans from wanting to get back all their old lands in the east, from Pomerania to Silesia and Sudetenland...
...East Berlin, of course, wants no part of any reunification dialogue. For East Germany, reunification means political obliteration. Only West Germans talk eagerly about the prospect of regaining through peace what they lost through war. For many of them, the question is no longer if reunification can happen; the question is how soon. The vision is for a new Europe that extends to the Soviet border and beyond -- with a united Germany in the middle of the emerging entity. Says Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "If the Germans say, 'We belong together,' then no matter how long it may take...