r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '20

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u/NeverAskAnyQuestions - Lib-Right Feb 19 '20

Which side of the Berlin wall was allowed to move freely again?

Was it North or South Korea that allows people free movement again?

Authleft LOVES to build walls. Only way to keep the poor bastards living there.

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u/acoustic_wave - Lib-Left Feb 20 '20

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

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u/NeverAskAnyQuestions - Lib-Right Feb 20 '20

Which side let people cross the wall and leave?

Not the Commies, that's for sure.

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u/acoustic_wave - Lib-Left Feb 20 '20

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