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Learning the warsaw pact wasn't formed until years after nato was an eye opener for me.
East Germany was not even a thing until after NATO formed. The reality of it all is fucking insane in how plainly laid out it all is
"the horrors of the Berlin Wall"
Twenty years into an anglo American occupation of the capital
NATO could have ended the Berlin Wall at any time by simply denazifying West Germany and leaving behind a neutral state.
For some reason I had always thought the Berlin wall was the line between East and West Germany. Every time I heard it, from school or elsewhere, it was implied to be that way
It was only recently that I really checked and learned that Berlin was firmly in East Germany, and that the border was several hundred kilometers away. It very suddenly made sense after that as to why an armed enclave of one's self-declared sworn enemies would be encircled by a wall
Berlin really did come around to bite Germany in the ass. You got cash for living in the west, cause, you know, kinda sucks, and also you were exempt from the draft. Which obviously attracted a shitloads of leftists, artists and the like that have shaped berlin into its current perception which has pissed off conservatives since it became a thing