The Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact

West Berlin was a little island in East Germany and particularly in East Berlin. The division had a really profound effect on the city, didn't it? It was an island surrounded by the Red Army. And West Germans who moved there, the city was dying but West Germans were encouraged to move there.

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