Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Driving their sputtering Trabants and Wartburgs filled with stereos, luggage and children, the refugees needed to travel only 15 miles from the East German border to reach Bavaria in West Germany...
...least 15,000 East Germans had arrived in West Germany via Czechoslovakia by yesterday, West German border officials said. They came by special trains from Prague or drove their own cars to the border after learning of the new escape route. Schirnding was the closest border crossing for those using the new route...
...refugees ignored pleas by new Communist Party leader Egon Krenz to remain in East Germany and scoffed at his promises of reforms. So far this year, about 170,000 people have left seeking freedom in the West...
...People just don't trust the government," said Schreiber, a dental technician from Staaken outside East Berlin. He and his wife and son had been waiting seven hours in the cold and had a long wait still...
...Friday, Communist officials in East Berlin agreed to allow neighboring Czechoslovakia to open its Western frontier for East Germans seeking to go West. East Germany on Wednesday lifted its month-old ban on travel to Czecholslovakia, the only country East Germans can visit freely...