Sixty years ago today the people of the former German Democratic Republic demonstrated on the streets of East Berlin and other cities throughout the GDR in protest against harsh economic conditions and a in opposition to Communist rule.
Hence the strret in Tiergarten called, Straße des 17en Juni - Street of the 17th of June.
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