Tuesday, October 7, 2008

To what extent did the construction of the Berlin Wall lower the temperature of East-West rivalries?

The
construction of the Wall did a fair amount to lower the temperature (assuming that you mean that
it reduced tensions).  As John F. Kennedy once said, it was better to have the wall than to have
a war.

Before the wall went up, there were literally millions of East
Germans escaping to...

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