The Berlin Wall: Communist Oppression

In the West of the world, the Berlin Wall was regarded as a major symbol of communist oppression. The Berlin Wall had played an extremely important role of defining the fate of the lives of millions of German people, which had been separated by the Wall for decades. The Berlin Wall was the most obvious frontier separating two worlds, the totalitarian world controlled by the USSR in the East, and the democratic world in the West. Although the USSR tried to control the western side of Berlin, West Berlin maintained a more prosperous living style compared to East Berlin due to their