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  1. This Grandpa Blogs @[email protected] ·

    A young border guard jumped the wire on his first day of duty. A family floated across a canal in the dark. These are real stories. Frederick Taylor tells them all.
    #BerlinWall #EastGermany #ColdWarStories #books #bookreviews
    grandpasbookreviews.blogspot.c

    #berlinwall #eastgermany #coldwarstories #books #bookreviews
  2. CarveHerName @[email protected] ·

    #OnThisDay, 4 Sept 1970, Russian Natalia Makarova is the first prima ballerina to defect from the then Soviet Union. A Tony and Olivier winning dancer, she returned to Russia after the fall of the USSR in 1989 to see her family again.

    #WomenInHistory #Histodons #ColdWarStories

    #coldwarstories #histodons #womeninhistory #onthisday