How was a young person's life in East Berlin different from yours?

They couldn't have posters on the walls of their bedrooms or really stand up for what they wanted to. They were constantly spied on by  the secret police force, even more if part of their families were in West Berlin or West Germany. Their adult life, as well as their chances of getting into college, could have been sabotaged by the government.Their whole lives were documented in extensive files that the Stasi had collected. Some of them weren't allowed to walk out of their front doors without facing punishment. They had no freedom of speech or protest and they would be killed if they were caught trying to leave the country.

A way they are the same is that many people died while trying to cross the walls.

Another way they are different is in size. While the Berlin Wall was a mere 87 miles, the border wall is an astounding 1,951 miles long.

Pictures of the Walls

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Some of the things that make the Berlin Wall and the Mexican-United States Border similar is that they are both actual walls, both had guards to keep people from crossing and both had people still cross despite of the guards. The things that make them different is that the Berlin Wall has been torn down, it was built to keep citizens in, and it only went across the city/state. In contrast, the Border Fence is still up, it was built to keep aliens out, and is built across the entire border between the U.S. and Mexico meaning 4 states and many cities.