I remember that Berlin had a wall.

[allgood33]

[PoliticAverse]

1. So did Hadrian. The one in Berlin was to keep people in. n/t

[lame54]

4. 20 feet high - 2 feet thick...

20 feet high
2 feet thick
Barbed wire
Razor blades

The wall was built
To keep them out
While keeping us
In goose-step parades

We don't question what we've become
We march to the beat of the same indifferent drum

Indifferent Drum
by NOFX

[jmowreader]

2. You mean...

...the wall that cost a huge percentage of the nation's GDP to build and guard, turned the nation that built it into an international pariah, required thousands of soldiers to staff, and was still escaped over 5000 times?

Yes, they had a wall.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. As much as I despised Reagan, that was some day.

[haele]

3. I also remember that one young Vladimir Putin was stationed in Soviet East Germany.

He probably still has an affinity to walls keeping people under control.

Haele

[DFW]

7. Yeah, I saw where he lived.

Just a few meters down the street from the courtyard wall where the most uncomfortable East Germans were put up, hands tied, and shot.

It still has the bullet holes in it.

[Ilsa]

5. It wasn't 2,000 miles long, thankfully.

I suppose some rope ladders, repelling equipment, etc, could be used to go over trump's wall.

[bobbieinok]

8. On one street the wall was on apartment building. Building in EBerlin, sidewalk in WBerlin

I was with a group from grad school in West Berlin on August 13, 1962, the 1st anniversary of the building of the Wall.

On that 1st anniversary wreaths were lying where people had either fallen to their death or had been shoot escaping.

There was a great deal of tension in West Berlin that week. No one knew if there might be an attempt by some in the West to rush the Wall. West German police and military and American, British, and French military were everywhere.

The aprtmentment buildings on the border along that street had their windows boarded up with just slits so East German soldiers could watch those across the street in West Berlin and shoot if necessary. Of course, no one was living in the buildings any more. The inhabitants had been removed before the Soviets put up the Wall.

We were told that the East German soldiers and police as well as the Soviets took pictures of the people who spent any time watching the building.

[Trumpocalypse]

9. So did Pink Floyd

[johnp3907]

10. At least we got a good song out of that one.

https://m.

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