The Berlin Wall is a wall that separates the border of West Berlin and East Berlin and other East German regions, making an enclave of West Berlin.Wall Construction
This wall was established on August 13, 1961 by East German communist government under the leadership of Walter Ulbricht as West Berlin was a 'hole' in their country. Between the years 1949 to 1961 was more than two million people fled East Germany through Berlin. This makes the East German economy to be oversized, because most people who are young who fled. So secretly and suddenly the wall was built.
Berlin Wall and Cold War
Who locked the Berlin Wall and West Berlin was cut exactly in the center city, a symbol of the Cold War's most famous. Many magnifying the west, especially the United States president to visit this wall to condemn it. President JF Kennedy in 1963 to come and make a speech on the side of this wall with the famous sentence: "Ich bin ein Berliner." Then 20 years later, in 1983 President Ronald Reagan also addressed here and condemn the Soviet Union which he called An Evil Empire, or an evil empire. But in 1989, on the anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev also visited the Berlin Wall and said the East German leader Erich Honecker that "Whoever comes late will be punished by life".
Escape through the Berlin Wall
At first this wall only in the form of barbed wires only, but gradually built stone walls equipped with towers supervisors and automatic weapons bersensor. However, this did not prevent hundreds of people fled from East Germany into the Western World through the wall until the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
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