How people escaped past the Berlin Wall

As tensions rose between the Soviet Union and the West after World War II, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev sought to end the wave of emigration out of the USSR-controlled East Germany.

5 Little-Known Facts About the Berlin Wall

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A s tensions rose between the Soviet Union and the West after World War II, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev sought to end the wave of emigration out of the USSR-controlled East Germany. The number of people fleeing west was staggering, and in 1961, Moscow decided to close the border around East Berlin.

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