The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall.
The Communists built a 28 mile long wall in Berlin, Germany to separate the Democratic western, and Communist eastern halves of Germany during the Cold War
It was built by the communist leaders to keep their people IN and the free word OUT.
They built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
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.
East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik)
The wall of Berlin was built my the Soviet Union to separate the communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin. This was done to prevent massive population migrations from the East to the West.
It was built by the Russians to keep the population of East Germany in East Germany and to separate it from the Western sectors.
During the Cold War the German city of Berlin was split into separate cities. East Germany was a separate city and country. The Berlin Wall was built to divide the city.
Germany.The Berlin Wall was built in East Germany.To prevent the Western powers from demanding the Wall be removed because it was on Western territory, the East Germans built the inside wall exactly 30 centimeters on their side of the DDR-West Berlin border. 30 centimeters doesn't sound like much, but when one considers the whole Wall was 117 miles in length you can see the DDR gave up many acres of land.
Berlin Wall