Undivided Germany under the Nazi dictatorship was influenced by a variety of parties after World War II (1939-1945). The four superpowers, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Russia, have divided Germany into four provinces. The Allied headquarters were in Berlin, the capital. Berlin, too, was divided. Russia, Germany's neighbour, has fought other friends. The United States, the United Kingdom, and France annexed their regions and formed West Germany as a result. East Germany, on the other side, was ruled by the Soviet Union. In 1961, the Berlin Wall was built to keep the population of East Germany under Russian Communist control. The Berlin Wall has served as a symbol of a single nation's partition, isolation, underdevelopment, and communist horrors throughout history. It was a 150-kilometer-long, 12-foot-high concrete wall. On November 20, 1961, work on the Berlin Wall began. A long barbed wire barrier and the deployment of guards were used to block the east-west German border. To prevent the Germans from escaping, barbed wire fences, shackles, and checkpoints were installed around the wall. It was also ordered to shoot the intruders. The Berlin Wall also prevented the mass exodus of East Germans from Soviet rule after the war. It has dragged on for three decades. Russia's Soviet power began to decline as a result of the two world wars. Realizing this, the people's desire for freedom became a revolution. When the three decades of unrest of the German people escalated in 1989, it became a long struggle. The "Soviet-controlled government" in East Germany granted people the freedom to visit and travel to West Germany across the Berlin border, as a temporary response to the struggle. But the provisional sanction has grown in importance. People scaled the wall on November 9, 1989, and patriots on both sides celebrated the triumph of freedom. The Berlin Wall is one of the most potent and enduring symbols of the Cold War to this day. On October 3, 1990, over a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany formally reunited.

Shashank Katariya

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