Via Peter Hammond: You need to see this ! This is an incredible 3D visualisation of the Berlin Wall....which Fell - 25 Years ago. The Berlin Wall was concrete proof of the failure of scientific socialism. To prevent Germans in the Soviet zone from fleeing to the Western zone in Berlin, a 165 km wall was constructed to seal off West Berlins island of freedom from Soviet occupied communist East Germany. The Berlin Wall included 289 concrete observation posts/machine gun towers and 123 km of electric fencing. The Berlin Wall was manned by 15,000 guards - the so called Volkspolizei (VOPOS). A further death strip stretching 1,393 km along the border between communist East Germany and free West Germany was constructed with: 724 observation posts/machine gun towers, 1,161 km of electric fencing, 54,000 self-firing devices, and 190 km of mine fields....Yet, from the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949, more than 4,500,000 (over one quarter of the population) voted with their feet by fleeing to West Germany. 38,515 escaped from East to West Berlin by tunnels, by improvised air machines or hot air balloons, hidden inside vehicles travelling from East to West Berlin. 2,768 East German soldiers and officers on duty (including a Colonel) escaped to the West.....An eloquent vote of No Confidence in Socialism.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:06:59 +0000
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