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What if there had been no crackdown on the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, Berlin-Alexanderplatz, Dresden and Chemnitz? What if not thousands of demonstrators had been killed? What if Bruno Lietz and then Siegfried Lorenz were not to have been leaders of "Europe's North Korea", as the state of East Germany is now called?

Would we maybe have witnessed a reunification, as some extreme positions claim? What other effects can you think of? How would we have handled the Polish uprising, or would it never have happened? Would maybe George H.W. Bush get a second term if this had seen less bloodshed? What about the chances of Thatcher reelection?
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