stackyFACTSIn 1989, an East German official misread a press release on live television, accidentally stating that citizens could cross the border 'immediately.' Thousands of confused citizens rushed the gates, and the overwhelmed border guards, having received no actual orders, simply stood down, ending the Cold War division.
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