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Two Russian human rights groups see political motive in eviction effort

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'I didn't feel oppressed. In a way, I was privileged.'

Katrin Geissler remembers being 4 years old and on her way to ballet school when she first tried to peek through the wall.

'We even smile at these stories from our parents because it seems so . . . absurd'

Valentin Geissler has no memory of the wall.

For mother and son, lives divided by a wall in time

The world turned upside down when Katrin Geissler was born, and it turned upside down again when she gave birth to her son, Valentin.