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Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum - #ColdWarChronicles: West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) is created – 23 MAY 1949. With the Allies already concerned about the expansion of communism in Europe,
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The Berlin Wall separated Communist-controlled East Germany from West Berlin. Graffiti marks the West Berlin side while the Stock Photo - Alamy
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