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We can argue about semantics all day long, but the simple fact is, command economies with no substantive foreign trade are unsustainable, and that's the kind of economy they had in all the countries of the Warsaw Pact. Eventually those countries all either dissolved (East Germany, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia) or moved intact to market-based economies (Poland, Romania, Hungary).
As to the destruction of the Wall...after the East Germans opened their borders, it became unnecessary to maintain this symbol of oppression, so they took it down.
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∙ 11y agoThe fall of the Berlin Wall started to be put into effect at the conclusion of an international press conference in East Berlin, when greater freedom of travel was announced for people of the German Democratic Republic. Border crossing points all along the wall were opened to anyone who wanted to cross on 9 November 1989, following the conference.
Prior to this date, East Germans were only allowed to enter the West under strict conditions. Earlier that evening, the East German government spokesman, Günther Schabowski, had announced on TV that East Germans would be allowed to travel abroad freely but didn't announce the date when this would come into effect. A huge crowd gathered in Unter den Linden in East Berlin and simply demanded the right to cross into West Berlin. The guards at the Brandenburg Gate were at a loss as to what to do. In the end they decided to let people cross over and merely put a rubber stamp in their passports. Then the number reached the point where even that was no longer possible. The official demolition of the Berlin wall began on 13 June 1990, and was undertaken by former East German border guards under a democratically elected government.
(Note. Since 4 September 1989 there had been huge demonstrations (so-called Monday Demonstrations) against political repression and the regime demanding a wide range of reforms. The protest crystallized round the right to travel abroad. Until 9 November 1989 one could only travel to the West with the permission of the authorities).
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What event helped unite East and West Germany?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
What cities were divided by the Berlin Wall?
Berlin was the city divided by the Berlin Wall.
What about the Berlin wall?
The Berlin Wall was built in Germany in August of 1961. The Berlin Wall was built to separate East Germany and East Berlin from West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1990 which allowed for unification of West and East Berlin.
What event led to a reunited Germany?
The fall of the Berlin wall -APEX
What was the concrete wall that divided west Berlin and east Berlin?
It was known as the Berlin Wall and divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
What year was the dismantling of the Berlin Wall?
1989 .
What wall did mikhail gorbachev take down?
Mikhail Gorbachev did not take down any physical wall. However, he played a significant role in the dismantling of the symbolic Berlin Wall, which separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (restructuring) allowed for a more open political climate, leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
What are so important fact about the dismantling the Berlin Wall?
The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Iron Curtain. When it came down, the free world won the cold war; the communists lost the cold war. They lost the "staring contest...they blinked first."
What impact did Berlin Wall have on US?
They caused hooter girls to be hoes.
When did East Germany build the Berlin Wall?
In Bernauer Straße, Berlin, the East German military started the official dismantling of the Wall on the 13th of June 1990. It took until the 9th of November 1991 to complete the destruction . A few watchtowers and small pieces of the wall were left as memorials. (: x
Why is the Berlin wall called the Berlin wall?
because the wall was in the city Berlin
What caused the Berlin Wall?
A big taco and some people say a 5$ footlong
What event helped unite East and West Germany?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
What cities were divided by the Berlin Wall?
Berlin was the city divided by the Berlin Wall.
What is the wall in Berlin called?
Berlin Wall
What did the west Germans call the Berlin Wall?
They called the Berlin Wall "The Wall of Shame."
What was built in 1961 to stop the exodus from East Berlin to West Berlin?
The Berlin wall
