Gallery 7: Berlin Political
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August 31, 1994: Russian Military departure, Treptow ceremony
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"It's incredible what the East Germans destroyed. Take one example: they destroyed the Kaiser's Palace because they couldn't separate architecture from politics. The East Germans blew the palace up. A country that dynamites its heritage dynamites its people. It could have been saved. It could have been restored. Had Stalin slept there once they would have kept it." (p. 164)
"The Russians are beginning to depart. Six hundred thousand of them. Imagine the logistics."
"One of the all-time great military retreats." (p. 469)
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