Nikita Chruschev.
Mikhail Gorbachev.
They built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
stop trade between East and West Berlin
stop trade between East and West Berlin
the Berlin wall was built on Sunday August 13, 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR.) They built it so East Germans could not escape from the Soviet Union.
Well...Nikita Khrushchev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who ordered the East Germans to figure out some way to stop all the defections into West Berlin, or else. The "or else" were the five Soviet Ground Armies and the Soviet Air Army that were already stationed in the DDR with nothing really to do. The leader of East Germany at the time was Walter Ulbricht. The commander of the troops who built the Wall was Erich Honecker, who became leader of East Germany.
Nikita Chruschev.
The wall of Berlin was built my the Soviet Union to separate the communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin. This was done to prevent massive population migrations from the East to the West.
Parts of the Berlin Wall.
The leaders of the two German states at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall were: West Germany: Helmut Kohl East Germany: Erich Honneker (ironically the man responsible for overseeing its construction in the first place)
Berlin Wall