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Why did Khrushchev build the Berlin Wall?
The Berlin Wall was made by the government of East Germany to divide East and West Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev played a major role in this, since he was the current ruler of the Soviet Union, "He picked up on a proposal that Ulbricht had made earlier about building a wall in order to physically separate East Berlin from West Berlin".

This separation was made in order to prevent the citizens to leave East Berlin. The standards of livings were considerably higher in West Berlin which was the result of the United States, Great Britain and France to add more resources and effort into building up Western Berlin than the Soviet Union for improving Eastern Berlin, an example of this is the Berlin Blockade. This was clearly seen by the progress that West Berlin had made compared with East. As a result, the people were starting to flee from the East making the West have a better image, and since tension was present between the East and the West a wall was made.