Status Updates From The Berlin Wall

Cuban missile crisis and fears it’s a ploy for the Soviets to move against West Berlin.

First the barbed wire went up. Then a week later the concrete block wall started to grow. All in the Soviet Sector, so the western Allies failed to challenge the violation of freedom of movement within Berlin under the Four Powers Agreement. It became a fait acompli.

And the barbed wire has gone up overnight around West Berlin with free travel between east and west now put to an end.

So far we’ve reviewed the end of WW2 to give a foundation to the Soviet mindset. We’re in 1961 looking at the political situation do the Soviets, Kruschev, and the communist world as well as the US, Kennedy, West Germany, Britain, and France.

1945: Although the Americans are closer to Berlin, Eisenhower give the word to let the Russians take it, thus setting the first stone for the Cold War. Churchill was on to the Russians & rightfully so, didn’t trust them.