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Dear citizens of the German Democratic Republic.
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If you've lived to see the wonder of watching our blue planet...
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from the depths of the cosmos, you see things differently.
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Up there, in the depths of space, the people's lives...
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Up there, in the depths of space, the people's lives...
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seem small and insignificant. You ask yourself what humanity has accomplished.
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Which objectives did we set, which objectives did we realize?
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Today is our country's anniversary.
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It's a very little country, seen from the cosmos.
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But still thousands of people came to us last year.
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People who we looked to as enemies and who want to live here with us today.
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We know our country is not perfect. But what we believe in,
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inspired a lot of people in the whole world.
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Maybe we have drifted off course from time to time.
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But we collected ourselves. Socialism doesn't mean
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living behind a wall. Socialism means reaching out to others,
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and living with others. Not just to dream about a better world,
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but to make the world a better place.
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but making it a better world.
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I have therefore decided to open the GDR borders.
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Shortly after the Fall of the Wall, thousands of FRG citizens...
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seized the opportunity to visit the GDR for the first time.
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Many want to stay. They're looking for an alternative to...
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the hard battle for survival in the capitalistic system. - Isn't that wonderful?
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Not everyone wants to join in with career addiction and aggressive marketing.
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Not everyone wants to fight his way through life.
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(Song) Such a day, so wonderful like today...