Who were the major players in the Rise and Fall of The Berlin Wall?

Question

On the American and Russian Side

Answer 1

Stalin and Reagan

Answer 2

From the Russian perspective, the rise of the wall was a Stalinist act. They wanted no contact between free people, and communists.

In 1961, they decided to put up a wall. The communists would separate free people from those oppressed by communism. There would be no exchange of thought coming over the border.

Many East Germans lost their lives seeking freedom. Nikita Kruschev presided over much of that killing.

Ronald Reagan was the answer to this problem. He overwhelmed the Russians with military technology, and promised a "Star Wars" program to defeat their missiles.

The Russian economy was broke. They could not feed their people, and keep up with our military advances. Nor could they feed communist insurgencies around the world.

The USSR imploded! Thanks to Ronald Reagan, and his successor, George Bush.

Bush went on to win a war! He stopped too short of the goal, but the US saved a lot of lives by these victories.

Answer 3

confident. I remember the development of the Wall. Peter Fechter wasn't the only one that died attempting to go over, yet he became a logo. I visited West Berlin six months after the wall became outfitted. there have been vegetation laid all alongside the wall, marking places the place human beings had died. i became born in 1943, so it became my mum and dad' era which drew up the convention bearing directly to Refugee prestige, the assertion of Human Rights and based the United countries. I remember the Hungarian revolt and the Prague Spring and that i labored with Vietnamese Boat human beings in Hong Kong. No time for a 'broken heart'. i'm nevertheless working for the persecuted, tortured and imprisoned. positioned away your hankie and preserve it. As they say, each and every little facilitates.

Answer 4

On the Russian side it was president Gorbatschow and I am not really sure it the US had at this point any involvement when the wall can down. The east side of Germany was finally rising up against Honecker and west Germany was working the last 40 years on the unification with the east. The rise on the other hand came from east Germany alone to" protect them self from the evil west.

For the german speaking/ reading yahoo's :
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_Sowjetunion

Answer 5

The rise of the Berlin Wall was due to Stalin & his communist cadres.

However, the splitting of Germany was due to Roosevelt's agreement to let Russia take capture Berlin. Churchill had warned Roosevelt about Stalin's intentions but his warnings were unheeded.

In fact, there was a little known agreement between Britain, US & Russia to partition Germany which was christened "Operation Eclipse"

Answer 6

Actually someone made a bit of a mistake on the Russian side ,its quite funny , check into it . Made me giggle .Glad it happend .Someone up there does have a sense of humor after all .

Answer 7

RISE:
Nikita Kruschev (and indirectly Fidel Castro because of the Bay of Pigs incident) on the soviet side;
and Eisenhauer and John F Kennedy on the US side.


FALL:
Mikhail Gorbachev on the "soviet" side;
and definitely Ronald Regen on the US side

Since the beginning of Ronald Regen's presidency, he stood up to the cold war opponent, (BEFORE Gorbachev), and eventually won, thanks to Gorby's sensibility too !

Answer 8

Me and Igor Rasputin!!

Answer 9

Heatler and Me.