CLASS ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL!

Today, we had a lesson about The Berlin Wall by Cristina, a German language assistant. She explained us all the things that happened by that time:

As people from West Berlin went to East Berlin to buy for cheaper, East Berliners escaped to West Berlin where they had innovations and information about the modern world.

The URSS couldn't accept that, so they did the Berlin Blockade, in which incommunication was the main weapon to stop that situation. But as products couldn't reach both parts, the situation became worse.

Then, they ordered to build a wall all along Berlin, with control points all over it so that anybody could cross it and become capitalist. That was a complete fail, because families were divided if someone was travelling or had not any way to come back, and East Berlin was way poorer than West Berlin. This was a time of suffering and hate between powers, but sadness for the innocent Berliners.