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Why do you think this wall was built in Berlin, Germany after WWII?

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To keep western “fascist” from entering west germany and undermining the socialist state also served the objective of steeming mass defections from east to west
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The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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