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Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures.

Their future was transformed overnight, writes a European journalist, but there’s plenty still to be done. Newsweek’s then-Berlin bureau chief Michael Meyer called 1989 the year that changed ...