ºº The fall Of Berlin ºº

(1945) When the world WarII ended Berlin was divided into 4 sectors:
º The American
º Tthe British
º TheFrench
º The Soviet in the East

(1953) The western Powers waived the interzonen pass, the Soviet Union follows but east German citizenneed a permission to travel to the west.

(1957) Leaving East Germany without permission is forbidden and prosecuted with prision up to 3 years.

(1961) The Berlin sectorial border between East and West Berlin is closed, barriers are built.On November 9th of the same year Berlin wall is opened.

(1990) Germany is reunited.



The final chapter in the destruction of Hitler's third reich began on April 16,1945, when Stalin unleashed the brutal power of 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircrafts with the objective of crushing German Resistance and caoturing Berlin.

The depleted Germand Forces put uo a stiff defence, initially repelling the attacking Russians, but ultimately sccumbling to overwhelming force. By April 24 the Soviet Army surrounded teh city slowly tightening its stranglehold on the remaining Nazi defenders. Fighting street to street and house to house, Russians troops blasted their way towards Hitler's chancellery un the city's center. Sixteen year old boys needed to join the S.S and die for their Fuhrer in the defence. They had no choice, because boys who were found hiding were hanged as traitors.

ºº Stalin ºº

Born on December 18,1878.

He was the General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party from 1922 unteil he was dead in 1953.

Stalin launched a Command Economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of 1920s with 5 year plans and launching rapid indistrializationand economic collectivization.

During the 1930s he lauched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused os corruption or treachery; he ectended it to the military and other sectors os Soviet Society.

In 1939, the Soviet Union under Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by a Soviet Invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Bessaraba and the Northern Bukovina.

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