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BERLIN--Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched and shouted "We Need Freedom!" in Leipzig yesterday during the largest prodemocracy rally in East Germany since a 1953 workers' uprising, witnesses said...
Christoph Wonneberger, pastor for the Lukas Lutheran Church in Leipzig, said "at least" 70,000 demonstrators marched in Leipzig last night...
...Some Leipzig demonstrators even "began conversations with paramilitary troops" after the crowd started dispersing by mid-evening, Wonneberger said...
Before the march, officials of the Leipzig Communist Party promised publicly they would push for an open dialogue between citizens and the government, Lutheran church sources said...
Also yesterday, nearly 10,000 people marched through Leipzig, East Germany, demanding legalization of opposition groups and adoption of democratic reforms. It was the largest mass opposition demonstration since 1953, when workers rose throughout East Germany in an ill-fated uprising later crushed by Soviet tanks...