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Nothing now. The former Soviet Union (USSR) built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to divide Communist East Berlin, which was under Soviet control, from free West Berlin, which was under German control. The purpose was to prevent residents of East Germany from fleeing poverty and an oppressive government, and escaping into West Germany.

The Berlin Wall began to be torn down on November 9, 1989. East and West Germany completed reunification into a single country, Germany, on October 3, 1990.

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