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BERLIN THING
BERLIN THING
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a reference to Berlin being divided into
English
,
French
, British and Russian
sectors
by the
Allies
after
World
War
II. The Russian sector came to b e known as East Berlin, and the other
sectors
were called
West
Berlin. In 1961 a
wall
was erected by
East Germany
which divided the city into a
communist
section
and a noncommunist
section
(
just
as
Germany
was similarly divided between East (
communist
) and
West
(noncommunist)) to
keep
East Berliners from
defecting
to the
West
.
—
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