what is the communist response to Kennedy's famous Berlin Wall quote: "...democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in..." (www.jfklibrary.org)

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It's really hard to find non Western sources about the Berlin Wall

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

Wait, i thought that the Berlin wall encircled West Berlin, which was part of West Germany?

If, so, when looking at a map...

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Yeah in the west it is never taught where the border was. I've seen people say the Berlin Wall was the border of the cold war, like bro more than half the width of the DDR is west of the wall.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I think this is the context that is always omitted from the Western analysis, thanks

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I suppose all of Berlin was also surrounded by another wall? Because if not, couldn't people from West Berlin just go around the wall?

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