Written by Neha Banka |Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: November 9, 2019 10:36:00 am
Explained: The fall of the Berlin Wall and how it impacted geo-politics
In 1961, the borders between East and West Germany were closed, and the division cost common people their homes, families, jobs and changed their lives irrevocably, creating two separate nations built on different socio-political and economic ideologies, separated by blocks of concrete that were collectively 140 km long.
The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that cut across and divided the city of Berlin from 1961 to 1989 and was constructed in the aftermath of the Second World War. After the Wall was fully dismantled in 1989, it not only led to the reunification of a divided Germany and its people, but also came to symbolise the fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ that had divided the Eastern Bloc from Western Europe during the Cold War.
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