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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.
Depending on whose viewpoint you believe--either to keep the West and their decadent influences out of East Berlin, or to keep the people of East Berlin inside East Berlin.
East and West Berlin.
They couldn't get to work anymore because the wall didnt allow people from the east to commute to the west. They had to find a new job in the east.
Russians denying access to West Berlin through territory that they had take from Germany surrounding Berlin.
Because Russia had taken over East Berlin, the supplies coming from West Berlin to East Berlin had been cut off, leaving the people in East Berlin with virtually no supplies. The Berlin Airlift was then enacted as a sort of brinkmanship as well as to give East Berliners their items.
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.
Because the Berlin Wall was built by the east German communist rulers to prevent east German people from escaping to the capitalist west.
They built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
The Berlin Crisis of 1961 began with the Soviet Union building a wall between East and West Berlin. The Soviets shut off access to West Berlin. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift and the crisis was resolved.