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16/06/2026

Today June 17th 1953 the East German Uprising.

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15/06/2026

- : A in 10 Matches

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15/06/2026

Today, 15th June 1961, East German leader Walter Ulbricht states, “Nobody has any intention of building a wall."

A few weeks later, events in Berlin reveal his statement to be a lie. On 13 August 1961, the GDR started building a wall that would divide East and West for the next 28 years.

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14/06/2026

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12/06/2026

11/06/2026

Read about Ronald Reagan's little-known visit to East Berlin.

Free access Jens Schoene, Ronald Reagan in Berlin. The President and the Divided City, Berlin 2026. https://bebra-wissenschaft.de/vzgesamt/titel/ronald-reagan-in-berlin-2.html

10/06/2026

- and Covert Action in Communist at the Dawn of the

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10/06/2026

GDR team competing during the two man Bobsleigh competition at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, 1988. (via GDRvisuals on Twitter)

To this day the GDR and Soviet flags still fly at one of the Calgary Olympic venues