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Thank you, Denis. Without you, it would never... - Yeah, it's alright. Here you go.
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Zoom off, before it gets sentimental.
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And tell me how it was!
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On the occasion of today's annual anniversary of the GDR, Erich Honecker resigned...
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from all his functions.
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What?
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We ensure our friends in the world that the socialism...
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(Reporter) In his speech on the ceremony for the GDR's anniversary...
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in the Republic's palace, Erich Honecker justified his decision by saying that
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the changes achieved in the GDR in the past few months...
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completed his political life's work. Erich Honecker congratulated...
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the new SED's CC General Secretary and Chairman of the GDR's council of state:
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Sigmund Jähn. - What, Jähn?
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In 1978, Sigmund Jähn was the first German cosmonaut in space.
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The new head of state addressed the GDR's population in the evening.
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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.