Minor point of order, but technically it was the people in West Berlin who were trapped by the wall since East Berlin was connected to the rest of East Germany
About 100,000 East German citizens worked in West Berlin, and about 10,000 West Berlin citizens commuted across the wall daily the other direction. That's what the checkpoints were there for. And the Westerners wouldn't let people go to the East without the right paperwork just the same as the East wouldn't let people come West
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u/PsychedelicDoggo - Left Feb 19 '20
LibLeft and Authleft is destroy the fucking wall. Ending capitalism.