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How "Checkpoint Charlie" got its name

As tensions rose between the Soviet Union and the West after World War II, Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev sought to end the wave of emigration out of the USSR-controlled East Germany.

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A s tensions rose between the Soviet Union and the West after World War II, Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev sought to end the wave of emigration out of the USSR-controlled East Germany. The number of people fleeing west was staggering, and in 1961, Moscow decided to close the border around East Berlin.

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