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I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson
The Berlin Wall, 1961
- People had been fleeing to the west Berlin for many years - Brain Drain (3 million) - smart people leave (doctors and lawyers and stuff)
- Built the Berlin Wall(only divides Berlin) to keep people in
- Propaganda - we don't want west people coming in
- Krushchev wants Kennedy to pull out of Berlin and make it a free city
- Kennedy couldn't because if they do so, it would become communist
Summary
People who can earn much more money in a Capitalist countries fled from East Berlin. Those were the smart people and Soviets wanted to keep them in. So they built the Berlin Wall.