Word: leipzigers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...want reforms without borders," said one of the new arrivals, a 24-year-old truck driver from Leipzig...
Krenz's first foreign trip began after night demonstrations in nine cities. About 500,000 East Germans took to the streets to demand democratic reforms in the largest protests in East Germany's 40-year history; about 300,000 people marched through Leipzig...
Monday's protests in East Germany took place in Leipzig, Halle, Schwerin, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Cottbus, Magdeburg, Dresden, Poessneck and East Berlin, according to the state-run news agency...
Weeks of demonstrations for reform have accompanied the flight to the West of tens of thousands of East Germans. The largest protests in the nation's 40-year history have taken place in Leipzig, another one last week involving 300,000 people...