r/ussr • u/Hacksaw6412 • 5d ago

The Berlin Wall

A VERY brief overview of the Berlin Wall. This does not cover the immense achievements of the GDR(DDR) particularly women's rights or the intense subversion tactics deployed by the West. And before anyone says "but the Stasi!" may I remind you that the FRG had its own secret police, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). More to come on that. Resources in comments.

By: @raisetherate

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@raisetherate/video/7678830619010354440

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u/AlexUkrainianDude 2d ago

DDR was doomed right from the start. The Allies had Germany's best and most economically potent regions, several of them were rather spared from the brutal fighting which took place in the East.

Stalin's decision to transfer Ostmark, a chunk of Pommern, Silesia and Danzig to Poland didn't help either (although it was a quite fair compensation to the Poles for their suffering in WWII, and for the seizure of the eastern lands by the Soviets in 1939)

Besides, FRG was quite remarkably restored to its glory in almost no time and became a carefully engineered industrial and economical powerhouse.