Chapter 739: There's Only One Berlin

The Berlin Wall is a pain in the hearts of the Germans. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At that time, as a defeated country in World War I, the Germans were disgraced, they hated the same enemy, and launched the Second World War, burning the flames of war to the whole of Europe, the mustache's speech was indignant, if there was no mustache to interfere with tactical command, there was no series of mistakes, maybe now the whole of Europe, are fluttering the flag.

The mustache finally failed, as the main culprit of the war, the mustache **, and the whole of Germany, because of the start of the Second World War, became a sinner, the sinner has no right to speak, when the troops of the East and the West, who cooperated closely in the war, after the victory in Berlin, also kicked off the prelude to the Cold War.

Berlin was divided in two, the whole of Germany was divided in two, and the division of Germany began!

Later, for various reasons, the people of East Germany under the support of the Soviet Union longed for the West in their hearts, so they continued to flee from East Germany to West Germany, and East Germany suffered great losses as a result.

From '52, the GDR closed the border between the two Germanys, and only the border between East and West Berlin remained open. A large number of East German citizens traveled to West Germany and other Western countries via West Berlin, resulting in a serious outflow of skilled personnel and labor. For example, the loss of human resources caused direct losses to East Germany amounted to tens of billions of dollars, the loss of young labor caused East Germany to lose 22.5 billion marks in education investment, and the loss of professors and other intellectuals made it more difficult for East Germany to build its economy.

In order to reduce the losses, in order to prevent the East Germans from fleeing to West Germany, at the behest of the Soviet Union, a dividing line across Berlin was formed, which was the Berlin Wall! After four constructions, the current Berlin Wall has been transformed into a Type 75 border wall, consisting of type support wall elements, each 3.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide. A smooth pipe is placed above to make it difficult to climb. It can withstand the impact of vehicles that rush through the fence.

In fact, this is the Berlin Wall in the narrow sense, more than 100 kilometers, and in the broad sense, the demarcation line has been set up on the entire border between the two Germanys, so it is impossible for East Germans to bypass the Berlin Wall, not only from the city of Berlin, but also from any part of the entire East Germany!

After the Berlin Wall was built, there were still many East Germans who wanted to break through, some drove cars to rush hard, and some used hot air balloons, all kinds of ways, staged a singing and crying story.

So, just make a fuss about the Berlin Wall and stir up the emotions of the Germans!

West Berlin, Brandenburg Gate.

Located in the heart of Berlin, it was originally a gate to the Berlin city walls, named for the road to Brandenburg. Historically, King Frederick Wilhelm II of Prussia ordered the rebuilding of the Brandenburg Gate to commemorate Prussia's victory in the Seven Years' War.

It is a neoclassical sandstone building modeled after the colonnaded architecture of the Acropolis of Greece. The flat roof is supported by 12 Doric columns each 15 meters high and 1.75 meters in diameter at the base, six Ionic columns on the east and west sides, and a wall between the front and rear columns, dividing the gatehouse into five gates, with a slightly wider passage in the middle, designed for the passage of members of the royal family.

And on this day, the sky was clear, there were white clouds floating, just in front of the Brandenburg Gate, facing the Berlin Wall, several tables were set up, and behind the tables, it was already full of senior West German officials, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was looking at President Reagan with a pair of uneasy eyes on the microphone slowly standing behind the bulletproof glass.

Helmut in 69 years, as West Germany's Minister of Defense, 74 years, Chancellor Brandt resigned, Helmut became the new chancellor of Germany, until now, according to the plan, he will retire at the end of this year, although then, finally relaxed, but, now the chaos of the situation in Germany, so that he can not be at ease at all.

And President Reagan, of course, personally visited Germany, for the sake of the matter related to the settlement of oil in the mark, and the whole of West Germany expressed support for this matter, and even thanked Dade! If oil can be settled in marks, then Germany can save a lot of foreign exchange! They will have the power to change the status quo and invest more in social welfare.

However, they know that this is just a delusion, and the Americans are here to put pressure on Germany! The Americans will not take into account the interests of Germany! If necessary, the Americans will unceremoniously use wool cutting to revive the United States by plundering the German economy!

Originally, it was okay to have a formal meeting today, but now, Reagan is here!

What exactly was Reagan going to say? And what kind of shock will this statement bring to Germany? At this time, Helmut was sitting here, with some apprehension in his heart, as if he was a schoolboy who had gone home after taking the exam.

There were military police around to maintain order, in order to prevent snipers from sneaking up on the opposite side, bulletproof glass was specially arranged, everything was ready, Reagan stood in front of the microphone and began his performance.

He enjoyed the performance.

"Prime Minister Helmut, Mayor Dipgen, ladies and gentlemen." Reagan's words were very infectious, and through the megaphone, his voice echoed over the Brandenburg Gate, across the Berlin Wall, over the whole of Berlin, and over the radio, all over the world!

"Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin and addressed the people of the city and the world in the town hall. After that, two presidents visited Berlin. Today, I myself have come to your city. I'm here today because wherever I go, no matter what I'm doing, I still have a box in Berlin. Reagan continued: "Our rally today is being broadcast to all of Western Europe and North America. I know that in the east, people are watching and listening. I have a message for those who listen in Eastern Europe: I am not standing with you, but I am speaking to you, just as I am speaking to the people in front of me. Like you, your compatriots in the west, I have a firm and unshakable conviction that there is only one Berlin. ”

There is only one Berlin! Reagan's words can be regarded as laying down an argument, and Helmut who listened to it trembled in his heart, is this to challenge the Soviets on the other side? In order to salvage the current decline, did President Reagan want to start a world war to solve it? (To be continued.) )