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The East West Border a Tangled Iron Curtain Frontier
The 935 mile East West border through central Europe tightens as Khrushchev hints at a peace treaty with East Germany. Watch towers barbed wire land mines and split villages show the harsh line cutting communities and farms. Western visitors glimpse propaganda placards and patrols by guards and allied troops.
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