Why did Russia build the Berlin Wall?

Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall--the Berlin Wall--to permanently ... read more

As tension between the democratic countries and the communist USSR grew during the cold war, Germany was divided into just two parts: the Federal Republic of Germany, with West Berlin, and the German Democratic Republic, with East Berlin. read more

The Russians did not build the wall. It was the Government of the GDR. The GDR was more or less completely controlled by one party, the SED. They built it, because more and more people escaped into the west. Since 1957 it was a crime to go into the west and then, 4 years later, they started to build the wall. read more

The Soviet Union did not build the Berlin Wall, it was built by and on the order of the government of the German Democratic Republic ('DDR', called 'East Germany' by the English-Language press). read more