HIST191 Lecture Notes - Berlin Wall, Mary Fulbrook, Mikhail Gorbachev
6 Mar 2013
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Soviets took eastern berlin, americans took western. Tensions between soviets and us because of berlin division. Soviets block roads in east berlin, so us uses planes. Leads to refugee crisis from east germany, went through to west berlin. East german government built wall around west berlin to prevent crossing. Western berlin becomes a hippie place: wanted to make themselves attractive to live in b/c they had wall surrounding them. Had olympic success, placed 3rd in 1972 & 1976. Builds new parliament palace of the republic : place of gathering people, in the center of east. Problem for east germany: as oil prices went up and interest they had tough time paying off loans to west. Pressure for east to maintain same standard of living as west. Commercial coordination branch of government: trying to pay off west. Sold whatever east germany had to the west. Sold political prisoners to west, so west had to buy back freedom of western german person.
