Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall is a wall erected nearly thirty years ago in Germany. The Berlin Wall divided the German capital Berlin into two parts, communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin. The wall was built after Germany separated from its allies at the end of World War II, and after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Many people were affected by this separation, some people were forced to leave their jobs or family members, many families split up, part of them live in East Berlin and others in West Berlin.
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The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by the government of the German Democratic Republic, the main purpose of building the wall was to prevent its citizens from escaping to the western side of Germany, and until 1961, more than 2. 5 million people fled to the western side of Germany.
On the night of August 12-13, 1961, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev ordered East Germans to build a barbed wire barrier across Berlin to prevent people from crossing to the West, and on August 13, East Germany preferred to replace barbed wire with a concrete wall. The wall on the eastern side of Germany was reinforced with electric fences and automatic rifles.
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the eastern part of Germany was forced to improve relations with the regions of West Germany, and as a result of the pressure on the president, he declared that citizens of both sides of East Germany The Westerners can move freely across the border between the two slits at any time, and after this announcement, a large number of citizens gathered on both sides carrying hammers and other tools to demolish the The demolition of the Berlin Wall was the first step for German unification, and the actual demolition of the Wall began on June 13, 1990 and ended in 1992.
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