East was communist and run by the Soviets. The West side was run by the Allies and remained free of Communism.
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.
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
keep people from leaving East Germany
keep people from leaving East Germany
soviet -> communist
Too many people were leaving East Germany through West Berlin. from 1949 - 60 it was believed 3million people had left for the West. Eastern Europe was communist at the time so there were restrictions on travelling, soviet troops were lining every communist country. But as West Berlin was capitalist they had the freedom to travel and weren't linned with soviet troops so Eastern Europeans were travelling to East Germany to East Berlin and through West Berlin they could fly out to another country. Skilled workers were leaving East Germany which would decrease their economy but boost West Berlin's with flight money. Khrushchev (Head of Soviet union and East Germany at the time) was getting angry so built the wall to stop them. God Bless x
Because the Berlin Wall was built by the east German communist rulers to prevent east German people from escaping to the capitalist west.
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.