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At this point in time, seniors at Mira Costa feel trapped, as if they cant let out of Mira Costa and Manhattan Beach soon enough. Imagine being physically trapped in their city, surrounded by nothing but a big cover palisade holding them hostage. The Berlin Wall kept half a city hidden behind, what was cognise as, the iron curtain. The besiege was ...a symbolization of oppressive and divisive g everyplacenment, not only to the East Germans it contained, but to the ride out of the macrocosm as well.(Transitional Justice.) The people of Germany were separated from their jobs, their loved ones, and were oblige to live under communist rule.Before the wall was built, the city was split, presumption no notice on Sunday, and overnight brutally severed streets (Heilbrunn) became known as Stacheldrahtsonntag, barbed wire Sunday. Shortly after, the creation of the concrete wall began. During the construction of the wall, there was outrage in West Berlin over the novel barbed wire wall that ran through their city. There was outrage in East Berlin as well but it was quickly controlled by their closed book police who made many arrests for any who did not want to abide by the communist rule and spoke out about it. Unlike another(prenominal) walls built around the world to keep enemies out, this wall was designed by communists to keep people in. 11-13 feet high and was a total of 28 miles yearn the wall encircled East Berlin. Surrounded by towers, guards, and dogs stood watch over a barren no mans land. A pipe, too large in diameter for a climbers grip, ran along the top of the wall.(NewseumBerlin Wall) Aside from the wall construction, there was other damage to East Berlin, Buildings...were demolished, and the wide open landing field became known as no mans land or the death strip, wh... ... the concrete prison. Soon after the wall fell, most of the East Berlin cabinet resigned and the stay member were removed. East Berlin and West Berlin were eventually reunited and renamed, The Federal Republic of Germany. The world watched the celebrations on television. After 28 years, the Berlin Wall had fallen. (NEWSEUM Berlin Wall.) The people of East Germany finally saw the light on the other side of the wall, and escaped the concrete nightmare.Imagine, literally being trapped inside of your hometown, behind the iron curtain of communism. Thousands of people lived that way for twenty-eight years, forced to live unseen and unheard. roughly were born directly in the East side and some died, neer to see the curtain lift from them. Life in the 1980s in America was guided by the truth of real lifetime, which real life was taken away from those trapped in Berlin.