The Berlin Wall | Communism

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THE BERLIN WALL
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Part 1
The first two part of the The Berlin Wall written by Federick Taylor, that is, Sand and
Blood, involves the events that are associated with Communism, the political ideology that
emerged out right after Germany became Republic, known as the Weimar Republic.
However, after a few year the Germany underwent immense recession in the economy. By
1931, the Great Depression had impacted the economy of the city adversely (Major, 2010).
However, the politics between Nazis and communists magnified as they were recognized as
the arch enemies, and Nazism had just been defeated, so people were willing to try something
new (Flemming, 2011).The tumult of the Berliners, especially those who stayed in Berlin
through the end of the war, Russian occupation, and the feast-and-famine of the blockade
(Spencer, 1968).
The third and the fourth part is the wire and the Cement. The book reveals that on 13th
August, 1961, the Communist Government of the German Democratic Republic started to
create a barrier of concrete wall and barbed wire called “Antifascist bulwark” or
“Antifascistischer Schutzwall between the West Berlin and East (Flemming, 2011). It is the
event that is famously known as the Barbed wire Sunday, when the military force of the East
Germany started off with the construction the Belin Wall. The motive behind building up the
Berlin Wall was to avoid the practice of fascisms in the West from entering the East Germany
and taking control over the state where socialism is practiced (Flemming, 2011). However,
the primary concern lied in the aim of emerging mass defection from East to West (Major,
2010). The motive resulted in firm until 9th November 1989, when the higher authority of the
East German Communist Party declared that the citizens who belong to GDR could cross the
barrier as per their choice (Flemming, 2011). It is to mention that some people crossed free
handedly into the West Berlin whereas there were other category of crowds that brought
picks and hammers and started to break open the Berlin Wall itself (Flemming, 2011). The

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event happened to mark the day as the most powerful symbolism of the Cold War. In the year
1948, a Soviet blockade of West Berlin targeted to make the Western Allies suffer from
starvation and drive them out of the city. The conflicts magnified when the United States and
its forces from the air supplied their regional parts of the city (Spencer, 1968). The effort had
an enormous favourable effect and the event is known as Berlin Airlift (Flemming, 2011). It
is accounted that the supply of around 2.3 million tons of food along with other goods and
fuels were delivered to the West Berlin (Major, 2010). After a decade the tension magnified
again in 1958. It is witnessed that there were endless influx of refugees from East to West
resulted in potential threats, While the allies took stand against it. The regime was ambiguous
provided with the fact that conferences, summits and other negotiations were flustered
without resolution (Spencer, 1968). However, in any way the influx of refugees continued.
The following month, it is recoded that many people left GDR through Berlin. And ultimately
the record led to be recognized as the largest number of defectors to be shifted from the
region of East Germany. And that night , the closing of border was permitted by the Premier
Khrushchev in order to avoid the continuous permeability of emigrants (Spencer, 1968).
The fifth and the sixth part is money and Afterward – the Theft of Hope. The Fall of
the Berlin Wall, occurred overnight, just the way it has been in the time of construction. Just
as on 13 August 1961, the entire society and the communities happened to find themselves to
be divided and following the event, on the morning of 10th November 1989 the division was
found to be non existent. (Major, 2010). It is evidently revealed that million of jobs lost and
the fact that instead of moving towards the East German provinces, man were exported to
countries when they were labored at low cost and low wages. In the view of City’s Berlin
Wall (Flemming, 2011). It reveals that the wall does not just reflect about the concerns of the
city Berlin. Rather it magnifies the picture of the imprisonment of an entire population of the
country (Major, 2010). Berlin is mirrored as broke. However, the city survives and has been