The Berlin Wall (Britannica.com)

[cwood4ever]

I am a God warrior

[qwertypoiu4321]

Communism is basically coercion and slavery.

Everything should be Voluntary!!!! The OPPOSITE of communism!!!!

[WolfytheWolf5667]

@qwertypoiu4321

read who made the wall.

Stalin offered to have W.Berlin reunited as a voting populace, BUT, The W.Allies did not like Stalin winning votes.

therefore, BERLIN WALL. so who's the "free" ones really here?

[4rainbowed]

too short. for new young school childrenm who don't even know where Berlin IS,.

[Dancing88Mike]

0:17 BOINK!!!

[Dancing88Mike]

@Dancing88Mike 0:16

[sneighwena]

The city Berlin has a Slavic not a German name. Think about Berlin how it is similar to the city of Lublin. It does not have a burg or other Germanic endings. I think it comes from an old Slavic word meaning bog or marsh. The slavic languages have words that sound like berl or brlog. Meaning fishing village or bog or swamp/meadow. The etymology of Brandenburg comes from Slavic brenna also meaning swamp. It is 100% Slavic not German, ironically.

[cyberkid111]

natziisem?

[StariSloven]

The spirit of Hitler will rise again

And help us take back our lands

He'll inspire us to win the fight

Because National-Socialism is always right

We shall make their Hoax-naust empire fall

We shall make their Hoax-naust empire fall!

[RockStarFilming]

fuck you retard hitler is stupid as hell fuck you

[StariSloven]

You fucking piece of shit!

Hail to Blood and Honour world wide!

Heil Hitler!

[JAZLIA]

When???

[DJMOCRO07]

Your on fked up retard lol

[MediaOwnsYourMind]

why did they need a wall to keep the people seperated?

[karibeuzum]

any wall that is preventing others from moving to freedom and luck is sick.

but there is a difference. germany got splitt. mexico and the US are 2 different countries. if the US get flooded with immigrants...how would that help any of those countries? o_O

germany got cut in 2 and even berlin got cut to prevent ppl run to freedom. not just because of economic reasons.

[ganlesat]

Honour to STASI and Vopos militia's men!!!!!!

[heliotherapy]

And the collapse of communism did not precede the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 - two years after the fall of the Wall - and a quarter of the world's population still lives with communism. Hardly a collapse.

It would be difficult to fit any more mistakes into a 43 sec clip.

[heliotherapy]

"Soon after the defeat of nazi-ism the iron curtain was erected by the Soviet communist regime". I would have expected better from Britannica.

"Nazi-ism" - presumably meaning the government of the National Socialists - was over in 1945. The term 'iron curtain' was coined by Churchill in 1946. Nothing was erected by the Soviet regime except, indirectly, the Berlin Wall but that was in 1961.

[24918433]

there was indeed an "iron curtain" that divided E & W there did'nt need to be any physical barriers.

[KleverGirl1]

Though in reply to comments below, did the USA sponsor the Soviets and East Germans? Remember that Cuba was a communist sympathiser and what will happen to Cuba when Fidel Castro finally passes on.

[UNC3345]

So are you saying we should leave our borders wide open so anyone or anything can get in? Would you leave the door to your house wide open all day long also? I do not thing of this as a very safe or efficient process of going about business, but I respect the Idea that we have the freedom to express our own different beliefs, so I respect your views even as I respect Communism (great in theory impossible in practice)....mind you this is coming from a republican (far from a supporter of Stalin)

[historyscoper]

All I ask is you read and find out before judging. I'm not talking about opening the borders of the U.S., but expanding them so they are easier to defend by incorporating Mexico into the U.S. as 10+ new states after their people accept our invitation and dissolve their corrupt Mexican federal govt.

[historyscoper]

The Berlin Wall was so sick. So why is the U.S. attempting to build another one along the Mexican border? Google "Megamerge Dissolution Solution" to see how the wall can come down and the whole problem solved forever, with justice and without racism or threatening U.S. sovereignty.

[UNC3345]

the Berlin wall was the division of a country by other countries, and the said countries political beliefs, A possible wall between the US and Mexico is between two different countries in order to prevent illegal immigration, and example of a berlin wall in America could be, hypothetically, if we lost WW2 to the Russians and Germans, and America was divided between the Fascist and Communist, that is an Example of a Berlin Wall, totally different from a border between countries...

[historyscoper]

Stalin would have been proud of you for those eloquent Floccinaucinihilipilifications­. The Berlin Wall was sick, and the Brownsville Wall is just as sick. Mister Obama, tear down them walls! There's a buzz in the air, and it's called Megamerge Dissolution Solution. All I ask is that you read the article before commenting, it answers yours and most other objections.

[scled1007]

LOL i read the jist of that..... You honestly believe the U.S taking over mexico is the answerer? You honestly think Calderon will go for that?Let alone the world lol Should I remind you that they keep an ultra tight lock down on their southern border? By the way using your "super " word only shows the need you have to prove your intellect.

[historyscoper]

All I ask is that you read my groundbreaking article before commenting.

[LKHK76]

Had there been Obama at that time in the White House and not Reagan the Berlin Wall would be still standing... as a price to be paid for "resetting" relations with the Russians.

[Xantheus07]

For some one who has History in there user name you sure don't know much about it. The Berlin wall was splitting up a country. The Wall on the US border is dividing 2 countries. We are not making a wall to stop people in the eastern US from going to the western US. We are trying to stop ILLEGAL aliens from entering our country. See 1 wall stopped people from leaving the other stop people from coming in they are free to leave when ever they want.

[historyscoper]

A wall is a wall, barbed wire, spotlights, cameras, armed guards. Since the U.S. and Mexico should be one, the Brownsville Wall is also splitting up a country, it's all a matter of how you look at it. As for "illegal aliens", anything the govt. makes illegal they can make legal, that's why I'm advocating the govt. do it.

[Xantheus07]

Tell me something slick why should Mexico and US be one?

[chris42999]

communist cunts

[ComradeDragon]

Always blame Communism right?

[suffrini92]

Yes - we can blame communism! It was the evil of communism that built this wall and maintained it for almost 30 years! Never again! Nie wieder!  ANd it was the resolve of NATO and the courage of the East German people that shook the wall and brought it down

[hottluv32]

Idiot. Communism is a concept. Germany did this.

[suffrini92]

Hardly worth arguing with you. Hate to have to tell you though that communism did build that wall and nothing alters that. You might have noticed that the Western powers restored freedom in the rest of Germany after the war?? They did not build walls...

[scled1007]

Russia

[sss7773]

@suffrini92

Harm was, when here these Germans sent people in gas chambers, and the right to occupation of Germany by armies of the USSR was from the moral and legal point of view has been proved and it is fair

And about bravery it is not necessary, I were brave the grandfather and the great-grandfather, rescued the whole world from gas chambers of Germans, instead of these which have run on the West to guzzle was more tasty, after all the hungry USSR couldn't contain also, as the USA

[Noa4h]

@suffrini92

Though somewhat resembling of Communism/Socialism, the Soviet states/influenced states were only Communist/Socialist in name.

Communism (and more specifically Marxism/Engelism) does not reflect a formulated state. In Communism, there is no state. With every individual wanting to advance the world as a whole, nations "naturally dissolve." So, I would actually say, it was just the greedy individuals under a different "name."

Nichts mehr!

[WolfytheWolf5667]

@suffrini92

Fun Fact: Stalin was the one who wanted to reunite Germany in 1952 and he wanted to have free elections but the Western powers refused because they were afraid that the communists would win. Subsequently the wall was built. Stalin made this offer 3(!) times and it was turned down.

[ldnkid]

oh dear...

[PumaOPumaOPumaO]

oh your right, it must have been the damn capitalists that built the berlin wall, silly us for buying that NATO propaganda about communists doing it

[lordmitchell14]

Waste of time really...hardly any information

[northdutchman]

dutch-democratic-republic dot com

[PoliceViolence]

This is a bit brief, isn't it ?

[hardgayhoo]

Thx it realli helps me in my project =D

[MrInfinity8]

In the words of Pink Floyd: "Tear down the wall!"