Wall of Berlin

 Wall of Berlin 

On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic  began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.  Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. 

 What if the Berlin wall wouldn´t have been destroyed? 

Basically, it would be the same of north korea. The only way it would have worked is through massive repression.  for the wall not to have fallen, it would have, first of all, meant that we would have experienced a different Eastern Bloc than the one we had in the 1980s. They would have had to stop the reforms  and if that had taken place it would mean that the Cold War would have continued.

 If they did announce a state of emergency, how would the wall have evolved? 

The East Germans,They were skilled at putting together cheaper versions of Western electronics and they had a plan to build a high-tech Berlin Wall. Moving into the 1990s and the millennium, it would have all kinds of alarms so that you wouldn’t need armed guards. they would basically have an electronic surveillance system but tehy will not be able to achieve it because of their financial capacity.

What benefits would there be in west germany, if at all, from the continuation of East Germany?

In some ways it might have benefited West Germany to keep the East in business, because it would result in more cheap labour. East Germany, from the 1960s onwards, was a place where Western manufacturers had their work done cheap

So,  an East Germany, with this high-tech Berlin Wall still intact, I think it would be one that had basically become an economic colony of West Germany. The selling of political prisoners to the West was also an enormously profitable trade for the East.

 

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