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Schabowski gained global attention during a press conference in what year?

  • 1985

  • 1987

  • 1989

  • 1991

Answer

In 1989, Günter Schabowski, the press secretary for the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany, inadvertently announced the opening of the Berlin Wall during a live press conference. This declaration, made without authorization from the party leadership, effectively signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany.
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