ignati
Hundreds of thousands of people fled the Eastern Bloc in the early years of the 1950s. These people aspired to live free lives in the West and feared the increasingly paranoid governing tactics of Joseph Stalin.
Berlin Wall
Westward immigration in the pre-Wall years
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Up until 1952 the border of Eastern Germany could be easily crossed. The Soviets erected the Wall in an effort to stop the free exodus of peoples to the West.