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He had nothing to do with it. German journalists triggered people to start tearing it down, and he took credit for it.
yes. It was an episode of incompetence and mass hysteria that caused the wall to come down. The Warsaw Pact really didnt care about what Ronnie had said
TLDR German Media misreported a change in policy in regards to the Berlin border zone, tens of thousands of people showed up and some just started climbing over the wall or walking right through the gates en masse, and the guards decided -not- to just mow everyone down, a few hours later they were smashing the wall down with hammers. it was a snowball effect