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BERLIN, GERMANY: Since August 1961, horizon for East Berliners was limited to contemplating this 4 meters high wall on which hundreds of escape candidates injured themselves, while others died trying to flee the tyranny of German communism - The Berlin Wall, raised by Erich Honecker, runs 164 kms long, surrounding the entire city of West Berlin, and manned by 14.000 border guards(Photo by Pool MUR DE BERLIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)