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Along the entire length of the Soviet sector of Berlin. The inside of the side of the Wall facing West Berlin was exactly 30 centimeters inside the territory of East Germany, to prevent the West from claiming the East Germans were stealing their land.
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How do you make a Styrofoam model of the Berlin wall?
you make the Styrofoam look like it
What did Berlin oppose to make the Soviets have a blockade?
The Berlin Wall was built, with the intentions of keeping East Berliners from escaping to free West Berlin.
Does Berlin wall still exist in people's heart and mind?
People still talk about the Berlin Wall and share their memories. Also in the poem "MENDING WALL" written by Ruskin Bond it is said that "good fences make good neighbours"
Did anyone make it over the Berlin Wall?
Yes, over 12,000 people escaped over the Berlin wall from West Germany into East Germany in the first year (1961-62). Uncertain of total escapees.
How many people were involved in the Berlin Wall?
as many people as it takes to make ryan kosmides straight
Why was Berlin Wall was Berlin wall so controversial?
The Iron Curtain dividing East and West Germany (and the Eastern Bloc) from the West was completed in 1952. However, there was a gap - in Berlin, where they was freedom of movememt between East and West Berlin. At the Potsdam Conference in 1945 it had been agreed that Berlin was to adminstered as a whole by the four Allies. Of course, with the emergence of the Cold War this became impossible. Refugees and migrants of every kind poured through this gap, and East Germany was rapidly losing skilled people. In 1961 the East German government, in consultation with the Soviet government, built the Berlin Wall, in order to halt migration out of East Germany. It was of course an admission of failure. The Berlin Wall came to have a symbolic and emotional significance that went well beyond its actual importance.
What does the Berlin Wall have to do with human rights?
Nobody could go past to see their families or friends. this would make them really upset
How did Berlin affect the society in the year 1989?
the Berlin wall fell down oct. 3, 1990 because the europeans wanted to make there country back into one instead of having it separated by religions.
Why was the Berlin was torn down?
The Berlin Wall was torn down because of travel issues. The Berlin Government wanted it torn down because they had to in order to make the new law. The new law was the law about travel for the two sides of Germany. the Government wanted to make the law so that the Germans could travel freely.
What did the Soviet Union in 1961 do?
failed to take control of West Berlin. -Apex
What was it like to escape east Berlin?
Escaping East Berlin before 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built, required smugglers, but it was generally safe if you had sufficient money to make the trip. After 1961, it was incredibly difficult and scary. You had to run through entire sections of live fire to even get to the wall, not to mention all of the barbed wire along the wall and the difficulty of climbing the wall. Thankfully, the culture in West Germany was not that different from East Germany, so post-arrival was not a major culture-shock. However, it was hard for those East Germans who crossed to rebuild their lives.
Why was the building of the Berlin wall important?
The Berlin Wall was one of the absurdities of the Cold War, by which a city was cut in half just to make sure that the ideological purity, and the Soviet thought control established in the eastern section of the city would not be contaminated by any ideas leaking in from the west. This was very frustrating to the citizens of Berlin, and many people were killed while trying to cross the wall, often for no more subversive purpose than the desire to visit their own relatives. It was this kind of thing which helped to create a great dislike for the whole communist system, which was overthrown in 1990. So, the Berlin Wall became a symbol of the injustices of Soviet communism.
