Barbed-wire barricade appeared before the Brandenburg Gate when the Communists overnight, on August
Barbed-wire barricade appeared before the Brandenburg Gate when the Communists overnight, on August 13, began walling off East Berlin to prevent refugees from escaping to freedom. Russian guns in 1945 shelled the gate and shattered its winged statue of Nike in her four-horse chariot. West Berliners recast the bronze quadriga from the original molds, and East Berliners restored the gate- a rare instance of East-West cooperation. British soldier with binoculars peers into the Communist sector, National Geographic, December 1961 -- source link
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