West Berlin became prosperous while East Berlin struggled with communist pigheadedness and incompetence. Nobody tried to escape from West Berlin to East Berlin.
The Berlin wall separated east and west Berlin
Berlin. It surrounded West Berlin, so people couldn't get from communist East Germany into Capitalist West Berlin.
Berlin. It surrounded West Berlin, so people couldn't get from communist East Germany into Capitalist West Berlin.
Berlin. It surrounded West Berlin, so people couldn't get from communist East Germany into Capitalist West Berlin.
Berlin. It was divided into West Berlin (capitalist) and East Berlin (communist) by the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989, and East Berlin and West Berlin were formally reuinted in 1990.
The East side of Berlin was controlled by the U.S.S.R and was communist, while the West side was controlled by the U.S. and was capitalist.
The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into East and West Berlin. East Berlin, also called the Eastern Bloc, belonged to Soviet Russia and was communist. West Berlin was democratic.
East was communist and run by the Soviets. The West side was run by the Allies and remained free of Communism.
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 Berlin Wall
You are referring to Berlin. Half of Berlin was part of communist East Germany. The other half was part of West Germany, which was not communist.Answer 2Technically only partly true. West Berlin was not part of either West Germany nor of East Germany. It was a seperate entity under joint military rule by Britain, France and the USA. In practice, the West Berlin Senate adopted the same laws, and legeal rights, as West Germany, and there was freedom of movement between West Berlin and West Germany.