They were kept there by threat of death.
It was built by the communist leaders to keep their people IN and the free word OUT.
The communists built the Berlin Wall to keep the people from East Berlin from escaping to West Berlin. As the communists took over more and more of the economy they made a bigger and bigger mess of things. West Berlin had prosperity; East Berlin had poverty. More and more of the competent people of East Berlin simply walked across the border. As a result, the communists had to build a wall to keep their people inside. We have learned from communism that government is totally incompetent when it tries to run business. Today with the property collapse we have also learned that we have real problems when the government does not regulate!
keep people from leaving East Germany
keep people from leaving East Germany
The Communists built a 28 mile long wall in Berlin, Germany to separate the Democratic western, and Communist eastern halves of Germany during the Cold War
He repeated that phrase because he wanted to show the people who dont understand the circumstanses between the free world and the communists world that berlin wass a big cause of that conflict
There were all sorts of feelings. Some people wanted nothing more than to get out of East Germany. Other people loved being communists.
Because Russia had taken over East Berlin, the supplies coming from West Berlin to East Berlin had been cut off, leaving the people in East Berlin with virtually no supplies. The Berlin Airlift was then enacted as a sort of brinkmanship as well as to give East Berliners their items.
The Berlin Wall was built to keep people from leaving.
The wall prevented people from leaving. They were forced to stay on their side of the wall.
Yes, they kept people from leaving their side of the border. No, we still got supplies through to them.
He repeated that phrase because he wanted to show the people who dont understand the circumstanses between the free world and the communists world that berlin wass a big cause of that conflict