That same day, the East German government reopened its border with Czechoslovakia in an attempt to demonstrate that things had changed from the Honecker era. Prague, on the other hand, had followed Hungary’s lead and simply opened their own border to West Germany in order to get all the refugees off their hands. Within three days over fifty thousand East Germans drove their way to the West via Czechoslovakia. It was like a dam had been breached and now a second hole had burst open. Three days later Krenz’s prediction to Gorbachev came true. Over 700,000 Berliners took to the streets once again
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