Fall of The Wall

Also referred as ”Wall of Shame” by the West Berlin city government, Berlin wall is a 155 kilometers long line of bricks which separated Berlin for 28 years.

After the WWII, Berlin was split by two different factions: Allied Powers and Soviets. They had disagreements between them about reconstruction of Berlin. Allies was expecting this and its said that they were relieved when the wall was built because retaking the control of Berlin was out of question and this meant that Soviets were not going to invade the west part of the city.

Until 1961, people escaped through border easily, since nothing was keeping them. It is estimated that 3 million Germans escaped though Berlin. After the wall, emigration was almost impossible. In 28 years,5,000 people are thought to have successfully escaped across the wall.

People were not happy with the wall as the civil unrest began to rise after it’s completion. In the 1980s, Soviets began to collapse. They lost their control of East Germany. And soon after, in 1989, Germany was reunified and people could freely move between it.

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