Built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961, the Berlin wall also known as the ‘Iron Curtain’, separated the soviet controlled communist East from the democratic West. The wall symbolised the differences between the western democrats and the eastern communist and the ways in which they believed their countries should be led. This period in time demonstrated the tensions of different ideologies between the separate systems of governments of the time; how they worked and the peoples opinion on the inner conflict of Germany and the division between freedom and democratic. The Berlin Wall symbolises the height of tensions during the Cold War.
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Shops were never fully stocked, factories were abandoned, and the citizens were left totally neglected by their government. There is no other way to describe the people of east Berlin other than caged. The wall had curtailed the freedom of the people. The presence of the wall made it impossible for citizens of the east to cross to the other side, for any purposes. Whether you had a successfully job on the west side, a family or friends on the other side of the wall there was no way for people to reach the other side as it was under constant surveillance by armed guards and was covered in barb wire. Attempting to cross over the wall would result in being shot. Nobody could escape from the repressive soviet rule and reach freedom in the west. Nevertheless, the wall did also affect the west, although it was more positive. There were much more technological advances and there was much more freedom to work and purchase goods. Those on the west side could also travel, unlike the east. The presence of the wall overall made Berlin much more historically relevant that it otherwise would have been. It made west Berlin a symbol of freedom for the western world. For the East, the wall was a barrier from prosperity. It kept in strong totalitarian ideas in and kept out the democratic ideology. For the west, the wall was not
The Cold War was a mass turning point in international relationships and the increase in …show more content…
Shops were never fully stocked, factories were abandoned, and the citizens were left totally neglected by their government. There is no other way to describe the people of east Berlin other than caged. The wall had curtailed the freedom of the people. The presence of the wall made it impossible for citizens of the east to cross to the other side, for any purposes. Whether you had a successfully job on the west side, a family or friends on the other side of the wall there was no way for people to reach the other side as it was under constant surveillance by armed guards and was covered in barb wire. Attempting to cross over the wall would result in being shot. Nobody could escape from the repressive soviet rule and reach freedom in the west. Nevertheless, the wall did also affect the west, although it was more positive. There were much more technological advances and there was much more freedom to work and purchase goods. Those on the west side could also travel, unlike the east. The presence of the wall overall made Berlin much more historically relevant that it otherwise would have been. It made west Berlin a symbol of freedom for the western world. For the East, the wall was a barrier from prosperity. It kept in strong totalitarian ideas in and kept out the democratic ideology. For the west, the wall was not