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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.

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