Current Events > why didn't they just go to the end of the Berlin Wall and walk around it

(+) Yeah! (+)

seems pretty obvious
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Would have been shot at
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I wish I had that picture with the black guy tapping his head.
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wait did the Berlin Wall go all the way around West Berlin? that's crazy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

You have to understand two key things.

1. The actual border between West and East Germany had landmines, barbed wire, and was basically treated as a militarized border between two competing superpowers.

2. Berlin was deep inside East Germany- At the end of WW2 the allied powers in Europe (US, UK, France, USSR (Russia)) divided up Europe, Germany, and Berlin because it was the capital. The tricky thing was that Berlin was pretty far inside the Soviet zone but it was still divided up.

As long as Berlin didn't have a wall people could literally just walk to the capitalist west from the communist east. The US was powerful enough to tell the East Germans and Soviets to eat shit if they tried to check the papers of people going in and out of West Berlin once they got there and there was a red line established basically creating this weird western zone inside of East Germany.

So the Commies built a wall through the center of the city, surrounded it with barbed wire and shot anyone trying to cross over.

There was no end.
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