On Nov 9, 1989, a fumbled East German press conference announced new travel rules "effective immediately." Thousands walked to the Wall's crossing, guards without clear orders waved them through, and by midnight East and West Berliners embraced atop 28 years of concrete. That gate-raise at Bornholmer Straße unraveled the Soviet bloc within two years and shaped Europe's entire post-Cold War order. #History #OnThisDay #ColdWar #BerlinWall

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