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from what I remember it was the Russians who built the wall to keep all East Berliners from leaving for the areas of Berlin controlled by Britain, France, and the U.S.
history showed that you could not keep all physical objects out, look at the Berlin Airlift, just like later technologies of television and radio could not be kept out, but one must also not do is get too stuck on the physical border, it is important to think about the barriers and differences in thinking that emerged within the different Berlin or more broadly East European residents, one might say that in terms of the economy, politics, or culture that in some ways the Berlin Wall still exists

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a) East Berlin (in communist East Germany) and West Berlin (a dislocated part of West Germany, a democratic republic)

b) Built 1961, torn down 1989

c) East Berlin (and East Germany) was a very repressive nation in the Soviet mold, but even more repressive if that’s possible! West Berlin and West Germany symbolized freedom.

Watch the German movie Good Bye, Lenin, about an East German family that must maintain the illusion the Wall still stands to protect the fragile health of their mother, who goes into a coma before the wall falls and cannot be given any severe shocks after awakening. It’s an amazing and funny film.

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The Berlin wall went up and was finished in 1961, and it divided the city in half.

The East half was under the control of the East German communist puppet government. The communists were installed as government by the Soviets after the Second World War.

The West half was controlled by the West German government, which was democratically elected. Between 1961 and 1989, there were several instances of East Germans trying to tunnel under the wall, climb over it, or go around it. Anyone caught trying to escape was arrested, and several people were killed in the attempt.

In 1989, the wall came down, and East and West were reunified shortly after. Germany was no longer two countries staring each other down across a wall.

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Advantages for the GDR:

The East German government claimed that the Wall was an “anti-Fascist protective rampart intended to dissuade aggression from the West and so the vast majority of East Germans could no longer travel or emigrate to West Germany.

West Berlin became an isolated enclave in a hostile land in East Germany.

Another official justification was the activities of western agents in Eastern Europe

A yet different explanation was that West Berliners were buying out state-subsidized goods in East Berlin. Most of these positions were, however, viewed with skepticism even in East Germany, even more so since most of the time, the border was only closed for citizens of East Germany travelling to the West, but not for residents of West Berlin travelling to the East.

Disadvantages: (only for the people how live there)

Many families were split, while East Berliners employed in the West were cut off from their jobs.

It turned the whole of East Berlin into a giant prison!

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The Berlin Wall was built with American-Russian consent.

The official reason, on the Russian side was the “antifaschistischer Schutzwall”, a wall that would never again allow a fascist regime to rule their territory.

The real reason was that each day people fled from the Russian occupied zone to the American enclave, West Berlin, and the Russians wanted to put an end to that.

The wall came down on 9th November 1989 when the GDR government announced on TV, by mistake, that the borders would be open for travel “from now on, immediately”. People from the east and the west started tearing the wall down when border control couldn’t handle the masses anymore.

Rumor has it that it turned out, years later, that the army of the GDR had order to shoot, but commanders refused to fire at their own people.