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>The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s - here is more as a metaphor. >The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided
by diimdeep 5y ago
>The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s - here is more as a metaphor.
>The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
- gruez 5y agoFrom wikipedia: >It later became a term for the 7,000-kilometre-long (4,300 mi) physical barrier of fences, walls, minefields, and watchtowers that divided the "east" and "west". The Berlin Wall was also part of this physical barrier. Regardless of whether you think the term refers to the political/metaphorical barrier or the physical barrier, it seems weird to characterize it as "designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration", when it was the warsaw pact countries that were erecting physical barriers. It makes as much sense as saying that the Mexico-US border was designed to keep out american "ideology and military penetration", when really it's obviously designed to prevent illegal crossings from Mexico into the US.