Man, I remember before the war, seeing a train in Berlin where the destination board was Moskau (Moscow in German). I imagined taking that train might evoke feelings of the cold war times. Sadly now there's a hot war.
30 years ago the bit of Berlin that I currently live in was literally — not metaphorically, not boogeyman scaremongering, not playground insults — Communist.
No, East-West was because of the border running North-South through Germany intersecting with the main motorway from Hannover to Berlin at Helmstedt.
The Berlin Wall was an interior division separating two parts of Berlin, 'West Berlin' and 'East Berlin', but to get to West Berlin by road you had to cross through a large chunk of East Germany first, and then you'd enter West-Berlin through yet another border crossing. The road from Helmstedt to West-Berlin was known as the 'corridor'.
West Berlin was best thought of as an island within East Germany with the Berlin wall circling West Berlin.
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