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.
They built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Berlin Wall
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.
The Soviet Union did not build the Berlin Wall, it was built by and on the order of the government of the German Democratic Republic ('DDR', called 'East Germany' by the English-Language press). It was built to stop citizens of the German Democratic Republic emigrating to West Berlin and from there to The Federal Republic of Germany (called 'West Germany' by the English-Language press). The border between the DDR and the Federal republic had already been closed. In order to stop emigration it was also necessary to close the border between East Berlin (part of the DDR), and West Berlin.
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to block their section (East Berlin) from the US/French/Britishcontrolled sections in West Berlin.It appears that the German Communist Walter Ulbricht, concerned that Germans were escaping from West Germany convinced the Russians to build the wall. The construction of the wall was supervised by the East German (communist) leaderErich Hoeneker.
The East German government with the support of the Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to stop East German from defecting to the West.
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.
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He and the Soviet Union built the wall to keep East Germans from leaving. There many more opportunities and better living in West Germany than in East Germany. If they didn't build the wall basically they would have nobody living in East Germany.
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.