It would be a fallacy to suggest that remarkable differences do not still exist between those two pa
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Karin Lukas is a TV journalist and presenter who has been based in Berlin, Moscow, and London as a correspondent for the German television news channel n-tv.
It would be a fallacy to suggest that remarkable differences do not still exist between those two pa
![Forty years of separation don't get erased by bringing down a wall, writes Lukas [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141166490244734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A German journalist recalls Leipzig in 1989 and the protests that led to the fall of East Germany.
