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or so long to maintain its power in the GDR, fell. With the fall of the Wall, the dictatorship came to its definitive enThe Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 by communist East Germany as a supposed \"antifascist bulwark,\" though it served mainly to prevent East Germans from defecting to the West. The 27-mile long Berlin Wall physically separated the city of Berlin into East and West sectors and symbolized the Cold War division between the communist and capitalist worlds. The massive concrete and barbed wire wall stood until November 9, 1989, when an East German official announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border as they pleased. Within hours, ecstatic crowds mobbed the wall, and many East Germans crossed freely into West Berlin for the first time in years, while others brought hammers and pickaxes to smash the wall itself.d.1961 to November 9, 1989. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. In 1961, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) began adding additional obstacles to the border, expanding the Wall into a complex multi-layered system of barriers. In the West, the border strip was referred to as the “death strip” because so many people were killed there while trying to escape. In 1989, the Wall that the SED had used for so long to maintain its power in the GDR, fell. With the fall of the Wall, the dictatorship came to its definitive end.

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