Incredible frontier history. When the Nazis surrendered in 1945, East Germany was under the jurisdiction of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic was established; while West Germany was occupied by Britain, France, and the United States, and the Federal Republic of Germany was established . The communism and radical planned economy realized by the Soviet Union in East Germany led to East Germany's economy far inferior to that of West Germany, and East Germans fled West Germany. The most serious is the loss of talents. East Germany began to strictly control the border. Therefore, Berlin became the only channel that could communicate with each other. In the 1960s, more than 3 million people fled East Germany. In July 1961, the construction of the "Berlin Wall" began. ". This is not only a symbol of the division of Germany, but also an important landmark of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
At the beginning of the film, it is the picture of shooting young people forcibly crossing the "Berlin Wall". The German capital is divided into two by a 1,600-kilometer Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was also one of the most rigorous military installations in the world at that time, except for the thick wall. There are also barbed wire, bunkers, watchtowers, patrol roads, anti-tank horses, soldiers and hounds. At that time, in addition to digging tunnels, driving planes and cars, diving, and fake passports, there were also cases of "hot air balloon escape" in this film.
Escape from East Germany was difficult. The film "Eavesdropping Storm" also depicts such an era. From this film "Balloons", you can see the ubiquitous secret police, such as the Gaunt family's next-door neighbor; the ubiquitous eyeliner around the embassy; the purchase of a large number of hot air balloons The cloth was told to the superiors; the kindergarten teacher asked the family situation in a needle-like manner, all of which showed that there was nowhere to hide the privacy of living in East Germany.
The Berlin Wall was overthrown, but the barriers between East and West were not removed. With the rising sentiment of East German citizens to leave the country, on November 9, 1989, Schabowski misunderstood the opening of the Berlin Wall as immediate, so all Berliners flocked to the wall and began to dismantle it. Although the Berlin Wall has been dismantled, the economic, psychological and ideological gaps between the East and the West cannot be filled. On October 3, 1990, Germany was reunited.
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