notes
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria
sugestive question
What if the Berlin wall never came down?
summary
The USSR feared that all the smart wealthily people in Berlin would move to the west in the "brain Drain". So they phisicaly built a giant wall.
- Berlin battle ground
- losing intelligent people went to the west "Brain Drain"
- 1961 build a wall around the Eastern side of the city
- Propaganda says it was to stop people from coming from the west
- wall put up over night
- Kennedy tried to look strong by putting more military in the city
- When ever a leader looked soft they just had a nuclear test
- speech by JFK in 1963 defence in Berlin
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria
sugestive question
What if the Berlin wall never came down?
summary
The USSR feared that all the smart wealthily people in Berlin would move to the west in the "brain Drain". So they phisicaly built a giant wall.