Was the Berlin wall really necessary?
>>18410753Yes because it was too easy for people to defect to the west within Berlin. Of course if your bloc was a more desirable place to live it would not be an issue whatsoever...
Of course! What better way to keep the fascists out?
Yes, Germany required humiliation.
>>18410755>Yes because it was too easy for people to defect to the west within Berlin.In theory yes, but in practice you were still surrounded on all sides by Soviet Territory and all the roads out of West Berlin were heavily guarded by security checkpoints
>>18412118>all the roads out of West Berlin were heavily guarded by security checkpointsIt was not fortified until the 50's, and the vast majority of defections were before the construction of the wall. So no, not just in theory.
>>18410753Use it's real name. The anti fascist protection rampart
>>18412172I believe the real name was "Defensive Bulwark Against the Communist Threat"
>>18412172>>18412177If you google on these names you will still find people unironically calling it by it
>>18412189Tankies are pretty retarded yes
>>18412190Yes but I think it nicely shows to which degree they are retarded by their belief that the eastern half needed a wall to defend against a country that was throwing money at them and keeping the east alive through cheap loans.
>>18410753i built it to give berlin a lububu type of look
>>18410753Yes
>>18412118what kind of retardation was this? why not just have the whole of berlin in east?
>>18413345Germany was the loser of WW2 in Europe so the western allies wanted the symbolic pleasure of occupying its capital too. Stalin agreed because they conceded Thuringia in return, and he expected to drive them out after a few years anyway.
